How to use System.Windows.Forms in .NET Core class library

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For VS2019 .NET Core 3.1:

  1. right-mouse click on the project and select Unload Project
  2. right-mouse click on the project and select “Edit foobar.csproj”
  3. Example of using WPF and Winforms in .NET Core 3.1: where I added the UseWPF and UseWindowsForms tags. Also I changed Microsoft.NET.Sdk to Microsoft.NET.Sdk.WindowsDesktop to be able to use also wpf.
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.WindowsDesktop">

  <PropertyGroup Label="Globals">
    <SccProjectName>SAK</SccProjectName>
    <SccProvider>SAK</SccProvider>
    <SccAuxPath>SAK</SccAuxPath>
    <SccLocalPath>SAK</SccLocalPath>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp3.1</TargetFramework>
    <UseWPF>true</UseWPF>
    <UseWindowsForms>true</UseWindowsForms>
  </PropertyGroup>
...
  1. save and right-mouse click on the project again and select Reload Project

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