Microsoft.DotNet.Props was not found

Solution 1:

Although this question has already been answered. I recently came across the same issue. The more specific answer is that you need to install the Visual Studio 2015 Tools (Preview 2):

https://www.microsoft.com/net/download/core

Direct Download:

https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=827546

Because this wasn't straight forward and I was working on a 1.1 dotnet core project, I accidentally skipped this step and only installed the Windows SDK. I reported an issue here:

https://github.com/dotnet/core/issues/378

Solution 2:

You need to install Microsoft .NET Core 1.0.1 tooling preview (the current one is Preview 2).