How to update AutoRest in visual studio 2017 - asp.net-web-api

Context
I would like to use AutoRest generated client for a webapi service by using "Add"/"REST API Client..." in visual studio 2017.
However, it gives the following error:
[Info]AutoRest Core 0.16.0.0
...
[Fatal]Error generating client model: Collection format "multi" is not supported (in parameter 'xxx').
The older version of AutoRest (e.g. 0.16.0) does not support "multi" collection format. So I installed the latest version AutoRest 0.17.3. using Nuget. But when I use "Add"/"REST API Client...", it still uses 0.16.0 version AutoRest and gives me the same error. It seems visual studio 2017 has a built-in AutoRest version 0.16 assembly.
Question
How do I get the latest version of AutoRest and integrate it in Visual studio 2017?

I also had this problem so I built a tool for it called REST API Client Code Generator. I worked in teams where we used tools like AutoRest, NSwag, and Swagger Codegen to generate our REST API Clients and it always annoyed me that the "Add New - REST API Client..." tooling in Visual Studio didn't always work and was very troublesome when it was time to re-generate the client
The REST API Client Code Generator piggy backs on top of AutoRest, NSwag, and the Java SDK for Swagger Codegen CLI and OpenAPI Codegen CLI. So to be able to use AutoRest you will need Node.js to be installed and then you need to manually install AutoRest using NPM
npm install -g autorest
Using the tool will add the Swagger.json file to the C# project and set a custom tool to it so every time the changes are made to the Swagger.json file, the API Client code is re-generated. You will have to manually update the Swagger.json file though if you use Auto, NSwag, Swagger Codegen, OpenAPI Codegen though. But if you chose to use NSwag Studio to generate code then you can just re-generate the code directly from the .nswag file from the C# project

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Update
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You can pin to the specific version of Azure Functions core tools in the Visual Studio 2022. It will not let you auto update.
Whatever the recent version you installed, that will be picked by VS.
Example:
Here when you select .NET 6, it will create project on AFCT Version 4, if .NET 3, it will create project on AFCT Version 3 (v3).
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It will just notify you there are some updates on Azure Functions Core Tools Package in your project/solution.
Note: AFCT - Azure Functions Core Tools
Whereas in VS Code, even though there are multiple versions of Azure Functions core Tools installed. At the beginning of project creation, you can select/pin the Specific Version of Azure Functions Core tools.
Later, it will notify there is an update on Azure Functions Core Tools Package that either you can accept update or ignore if you want to work on specified version.

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Visual Studio 2019 where to find WebAssembly template for .net core 3.1

I'm using very latest (16.4.2, dated 8th Jan 2020) Visual Studio 2019.
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I assumed latest version would be there, so I went to the Visual Studio marketplace website and there were no Blazor extensions to be found, so looking on the internet I found running this command:
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Microsoft.AspNetCore.Blazor.Templates::3.1.0-preview2.19528.8
(found via Missing visual studio 2019 blazor webassembly app template)
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dotnet new --install Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.WebAssembly.Templates::3.2.0-preview3.20168.3
The NuGet package for above is here.
Get started with ASP.NET Core Blazor here.
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The latest release is now an RC and can be installed with the following:
dotnet new -i Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.WebAssembly.Templates::3.2.0-rc1.20223.4
The latest preview release as of April 30th can now be installed with the following:
dotnet new -i Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.WebAssembly.Templates::3.2.0-preview5.20216.8
This requires the latest dotnet core SDK 3.1.201.
To check for the latest preview you can check the ASP.NET blog.

What is the purpose of taco.json in Apache Cordova Visual Studio 2015 project?

I am playing with the new Apache Cordova blank template in Visual Studio 2015 RC. I noticed the taco.json file in the project.
Besides defining the version of Apache Cordova you are using does it serves any other purpose?
Is it something like bower to define other frameworks like angular or bootstrap in there?
Geert,
taco.json file is currently used by Visual Studio to define Cordova CLI version used to build the project with. If you open up config.xml designer, under the platforms tab you will see the Cordova CLI version specified.
When you build/run your app for iOS, the remote agent uses the CLI version defined in your taco.json file to ensure that the remote machine uses the correct version of Cordova to build your app.
Currently, taco.json file is only used by Visual Studio and Visual Studio CLI (like vs-mda-remote) and does not define bower packages.
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{
"cordova-cli": "4.3.0"
}
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Geert,
I have not used this feature, but based on the existing documentation, taco.json is used for continuous integration servers.
Documentation with details can be found here:
https://github.com/Microsoft/cordova-docs/blob/master/tutorial-gulp/gulp-ci.md
https://github.com/Microsoft/cordova-docs/blob/master/tutorial-team-build/README.md
To add to an older question:
Since TACO v1.0.0 was officially release on Thursday (1 October 2015), Here's the new official site: taco.tools.
I found this site to be a great place to get started and extra info on TACO.

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If nor does anyone know of a similar AMPQ client as a PCL
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