diff --git a/build/dependencies.props b/build/dependencies.props
index 12125af5be..6fa3a433b5 100644
--- a/build/dependencies.props
+++ b/build/dependencies.props
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
     <AspNetCoreIntegrationTestingVersion>0.4.0-*</AspNetCoreIntegrationTestingVersion>
     <AspNetCoreVersion>2.0.0-*</AspNetCoreVersion>
     <CoreFxLabsVersion>0.1.0-*</CoreFxLabsVersion>
-    <CoreFxVersion>4.3.0</CoreFxVersion>
     <GoogleProtobufVersion>3.1.0</GoogleProtobufVersion>
     <InternalAspNetCoreSdkVersion>2.1.0-*</InternalAspNetCoreSdkVersion>
     <JsonNetVersion>10.0.1</JsonNetVersion>
@@ -16,7 +15,7 @@
     <RxVersion>3.1.1</RxVersion>
 
     <!--
-      TODO remove  in next update of xunit
+      TODO remove in next update of xunit
       Prevent bug in xunit.analyzer from failing the build.
       Should be fixed by https://github.com/xunit/xunit.analyzers/pull/52
     -->
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Sockets.Common/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Sockets.Common.csproj b/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Sockets.Common/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Sockets.Common.csproj
index 0e12b5c4cc..5f7ec3dca9 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Sockets.Common/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Sockets.Common.csproj
+++ b/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Sockets.Common/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Sockets.Common.csproj
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
   <PropertyGroup>
     <Description>Common primitives for Sockets clients and servers</Description>
-    <TargetFramework>netstandard1.3</TargetFramework>
+    <TargetFramework>netstandard2.0</TargetFramework>
     <NoWarn>$(NoWarn);CS1591</NoWarn>
     <GenerateDocumentationFile>true</GenerateDocumentationFile>
     <PackageTags>aspnetcore;signalr</PackageTags>