title: Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 2.1.1 upgrade "Blocked by project"
body: <p>I'm trying to upgrade a .net core 2.1 project to the latest version of Nuget packages such as Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.Abstractions 2.1.1.</p>
  
  <p>However this is blocked by the package reference Microsoft.NETCore.App, when I try to upgrade the "meta" package Microsoft.NETCore.App I see "Blocked by project" similar to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44026190/visual-studio-2017-cannot-update-microsoft-netcore-app-package-blocked-by-proj">this question</a>. That was resolved by switching to the newer version of the SDK, however that isn't an option here... because there isn't a newer version of the SDK (yet?).</p>
  
  <p>I've also seen <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/43917843/31151">this answer</a> to upgrade specific packages by editing the .csproj file manually with an Update package reference but I doubt that's the intended method of doing this.</p>
  
  <p>How <em>should</em> I go about this? For now I've just manually included the package references I actually use and dropped the meta package but I can't imagine that's the intended way to go about this.</p>