I am trying to create a (simple) windows form application in Visual Studio Code 2017. Sadly I am unable to use the full VS versions, so I don't have the menu options to create new projects.

Previously, I have created console projects by running `dotnet new console` from the terminal in VSC. However, I can't get this to work with a forms application.

The following extensions are installed from the Marketplace:

[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/q3O4F.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/q3O4F.png)

What I tried:

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Create console application, and reference `using System.Windows.Forms;`: However, this requires me to reference this namespace:

> 
> The type or namespace 'Forms' does not exist in the namespace "System.Windows"
> 
> 
> 

So I tried to add this using the `NuGet Package Manager: Add Package` command, but here I can't find the package `System.Windows.Forms`.

One last thing I could think of was to manually add a reference to the .csproj file:

```
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.0</TargetFramework>
    <RuntimeIdentifiers>win7-x64</RuntimeIdentifiers>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="Newtonsoft.Json" Version="10.0.3"/>
    <PackageReference Include="System.Windows.Forms" HintPath = "\..\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319"/>
  </ItemGroup>
</Project>

```

But when running `dotnet restore` this gives warnings:

```
warning NU1604: Project dependency System.Windows.Forms does not contain an inclusive lower bound. Include a lower bound in the dependency version to ensure consistent restore results.
warning NU1701: Package 'System.Windows.Forms 4.0.0' was restored using '.NETFramework,Version=v4.6.1' instead of the project target framework '.NETCoreApp,Version=v2.0'. This package may not be fully compatible with your project.

```

And when run gives the following exception:

```
System.BadImageFormatException: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Windows.Forms, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'. Reference assemblies should not be loaded for execution.  They can only be loaded in the Reflection-only loader context. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131058) ---> System.BadImageFormatException: Cannot load a reference assembly for execution.

```

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Create a single .cs file, and compile that with `csc`. This way I can use `Forms`, but I lose the functionality of `dotnet` handling other dependencies.

Question
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I feel like this issue suffers from the XY problem. I am new to C# and .NET, so I am not sure where I am failing, whether what I am trying to do is even possible.

So my question is, how do I create a windows forms application using the `dotnet new` command?