Why was SF Stateless Web API template removed? - azure-service-fabric

In the picture below we can see in the year 2018 in VS2017 there is no Stateless Web API template in Service Fabric templates in VS. Why was this removed and what are it's replacements?

Because at the time you took the first screenshot, probably using .NET SDK 2.8 or earlier and SF tools for VS 1.7 and earlier, Service Fabric and the WebApi templates were based on dot net framework only.
The releases that came after Service Fabric .NET SDK 3.0 and SF tools for VS 2.0 , like the one in the screenshot, started a migration to .net standard 2, now you can target dot net framework or dot net core using the same libraries targeting .Net Standard. For A while you had both templates available, now everything is based on core.
The main difference between the old and the new is that the previous templates you used dot net framework 4.6.2 + Owin, now you use AspNet Core with any framework compatible with the .Net Standard 2.
You might get more info from these release notes:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/azureservicefabric/2017/09/25/service-fabric-6-0-release/
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/azureservicefabric/2018/01/26/service-fabric-6-1-release/

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Can Duende IdentityServer v6 be used in a .Net Framework Application?

We are reviewing our our applications which use IdentityServer now it has rebranded to Duende become a subscription model and have come across a forgotten application which consists of a number of .Net Framework projects, one of which references the dll's IdentityServer3 and IdentityServer3.WsFederation.
If we want to be using a supportable we need to upgrade to IdentityServer v6 but given that this is a .Net 6 application, the only route I can see to this is to upgrade all the projects in the solution to be .Net 6 also.
Is there a supported .Net Framework compatible version of IdentityServer?
If not is there a trick I am missing which means I don't have to upgrade the entire solution to .Net Core and maybe limit it to just the one project that references these two dll's?
Thanks in advance

Consume a SOAP Service in an Azure function

Environment
Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise on MAC, Mono 5.12.0.309
Problem
I've successfully built and packaged an Azure Function. Now, I'd like to call a SOAP Web service in the function (over which I have no control). I added a Web Reference to the published WSDL and tried to compile the function which resulted in a ton of errors primarily indicating "System.Web.Services" namespace is missing.
"System.Web" doesn't seem to be part of .NET Core 2.1 (that is referenced in the function project). How would I then add a reference to "System.Web.Services" assembly? Is there a NuGet package?
UPDATE
Part of this was my lack of understanding of what .NET Core actually is. Since I'm using .NET Core, I can't make reference to assemblies that are targeting .NET Framework. "System.Web.Services" seems to be one.
Now the question becomes, how one would then call SOAP Services from .NET Core application?
You can use the new WCF client side stack on .NET Core: https://github.com/dotnet/wcf
There is a good sample to a question on this thread: Calling a SOAP service in .net Core

Stateless worker service and api service both referencing same project

I have a service fabric solution that contains the following:
Worker service (.net framework 4.7)
Api Service (.net core 2.0 as VS 2017 does not provide a template for framework api services)
Infrastructure project (.net standard) referencing EntityFrameworkCore
Both services reference infrastructure project.
This gives me issues as the framework service will not load EntityFrameworkCore reference due to it being core.
How do I go about resolving this issue?
Can I force the core to load EF 6.2?
Can I force 4.7 to load EFCore?
Entiy Framework Core is .NET Standard as well, it should load fine on .NET Framework 4.7.
You may need to add the EF Core NuGet packages to the worker service if it doesn't yet use the transitive NuGet package reference style.

AspNet Core Consuming WebService (VS2015)

In my AspNet Core project I need to consume a SOAP/WSDL WebService. I am using VS2015 and have made a non-aspnet core project to test the webservice (went fine), but with AspNet Core, I cannot seem to find a way to make this happen. It looks like SOAP webservice isn't supported (yet?) but if that is the case, is there a different way to consume a soap webservice?
I am already using the net461 framework so I can use the normal .NET libraries, but VS2015 doesn't expose the “Add Service Reference” menu option.
Find this similar question. I have not implemented/verified/tested it but hopefully yo can find some guidance. The sample is using the prior version of AspNet Core (AspNet 5)
ASP.NET 5 add WCF service reference
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/additional-tools/wcf-web-service-reference-guide
See if this helps. In VS 2017, I am able to add the service reference from connected services in a .net core project. You might need to install "WCF Service Reference Provider" Extension.

How to make ASP.NET Core RC1 work with the GA SDK?

The previous non-GA versions of Service Fabric came with support (and template) for ASP.NET Core RC1. GA removed this support.
I have a project that depends on ASP.NET Core RC1. I would also like to update to the new SDK now.
I can get the asp.net service to run with the latest SDK without any significant changes to code. However creating a ActorProxy or ServiceProxy in the asp.net project fails with exception "The config package was not found". So my asp.net service is unable to communicate with the rest of the services in the application.
How can i fix the issue with ActorProxy and ServiceProxy on ASP.NET Core RC1 service?
Someone else discussed the same problem in the comments of Service Fabric documentation. Vaclav came up with workaround to the bug. Basically the client project requires ConfigurationPackage named "Config". Projects based on the old ASP.NET Core template didn't have the ConfigurationPackage.
For details of implementing the workaround, see:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/service-fabric-get-started/#comment-2601127160