.NET Standard and Visual Studio 2017 - visual-studio-2017

I've installed recently released Visual Studio 2017 and created a .NET Standard Class Library project.
The .cproj just targets .NET Standard v1.4:
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
<PropertyGroup>
<TargetFramework>netstandard1.4</TargetFramework>
</PropertyGroup>
</Project>
Within Visual Studio, it states that it successfully referenced the NETStandard.Library metapackage.
Within this library project, I have a simple class that utilizes System.Threading.Tasks.Task type.
using System;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace ClassLibrary1
{
public class Class1
{
public Class1(Action action)
{
var task1 = Task.Run(action);
}
}
}
During the build in Visual Studio it does check compatibility with .NETStandard 1.4 against the dll-s found in nuget packages, however those dll-s are not copied to the output folder.
Checking compatibility for System.Threading 4.3.0 with
.NETStandard,Version=v1.4.
1> System.Threading.Tasks/4.3.0 1>
Name=System.Threading.Tasks 1>
Path=system.threading.tasks/4.3.0 1>
ResolvedPath=C:\Users\user-name\.nuget\packages\system.threading.tasks\4.3.0
1> Type=package 1> Version=4.3.0
The project compiles and produces dll (ClassLibrary1.dll) referencing only 2 assemblies: System.Runtime.dll and System.Threading.Tasks.dll.
Which are resolved to GAC dlls:
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\System.Runtime.dll
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\System.Threading.Tasks.dll
These are the Full .NET Framework 4.6.1586.0 assemblies, installed globally in my Windows and registered in GAC.
QUESTION: Is this a correct behavior? After reading the .NET Standard docs I was convinced that ClassLibrary1.dll would reference netstandard.dll which would act as a facade for nuget versions of System.Runtime.dll and System.Threading.Tasks.dll. And/or those dll-s would be copied into output directory along with ClassLibrary1.dll.

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1>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\atlmfc\include\afx.h(345): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'atltrace.h': No such file or directory
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Details
"Platform Toolset" setting (at "Project properties/General/Platform Toolset")
set to "Visual Studio 2015 (v140),
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Files on disc
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Installer
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There is a blog post about the Visual C++ Build Tools 2015. The build tools are also released in a standalone version without the need to install Visual Studio 2015:
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Visual studio 2017 - copy local false

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http://pastebin.com/Yu5DM0kJ
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MBCS Error building MFC C++ project with Visual Studio

I opened my existing MFC project using Visual Studio and when I build I get the following error message:
Error 1 error MSB8031: Use of MBCS encoding in MFC projects require an additional library to be downloaded and installed. Please see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=286820 for more information. C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\v120\Microsoft.CppBuild.targets
What is this about?
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The download is available here
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Building C++ CLR app for Platform Toolset v90 in VS2010 requires Visual Studio 2008

I've got a shiny new laptop with the latest Dev tools installed such as Visual Studio 2010.
Now I've got a task to build a C++ CLR app targeting the 2.0 runtime (this is well outside my comfort zone). So I've specifed the v90 Platform Toolset but when I build I get:-
error MSB8010: Specified platform toolset (v90) requires Visual Studio 2008. Please make sure that Visual Studio 2008 is installed on the machine.
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If not just how much of the VS 2008 installation do I need?
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<RootNamespace>ECGConvertWrapper</RootNamespace>
<Keyword>Win32Proj</Keyword>
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<TargetFrameworkVersion>v2.0</TargetFrameworkVersion> //there
</PropertyGroup>