Visual Studio '17 not showing assemblies in reference manager

Question

I've the issue that I can't seem to figure out how to add references to certain solutions.

In most of the solutions I start in Visual Studio '17 I see "References" in my solution explorer, but e.g. for a asp.net core web api I get "Dependencies" instead. Whenever the solution shows the "References" I can view the "assemblies" tab in the "Reference Manager", but for solutions that have the "Depedencies" I can't see it (as shown in example below).

Answer 1

.Net core only works with NuGet packages.

if you have other libraries which are not part of your current solution. you need to pack it a NuGet server (You can have a local NuGet server as well)

see the following post for more information:

Using external .dll in dot net core