Error CS0234: The type or namespace name ‘AspNetCore’ does not exist in the namespace ‘Microsoft’ (are you missing an assembly reference?)

We just had this issue where visual studio helpfully added a local reference rather than going via nuget

<ItemGroup>
  <Reference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Core">
    <HintPath>C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\NuGetFallbackFolder\microsoft.aspnetcore.mvc.core\2.0.0\lib\netstandard2.0\Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Core.dll</HintPath>
  </Reference>
</ItemGroup>

Removing this and referencing via nuget solved the problem, looks like an issue in Visual Studio 2017.