diff --git a/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility/commands/utility/AddType.cs b/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility/commands/utility/AddType.cs
index 6e8486df88..d285c50edb 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility/commands/utility/AddType.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility/commands/utility/AddType.cs
@@ -597,9 +597,9 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands
 
         #region LoadAssembly
 
-        // We now ship the NetCoreApp2.0 reference assemblies with PowerShell Core, so that Add-Type can work
+        // We now ship .Net Core's reference assemblies with PowerShell Core, so that Add-Type can work
         // in a predictable way and won't be broken when we move to newer version of .NET Core.
-        // The NetCoreApp2.0 reference assemblies are located at '$PSHOME\ref'.
+        // The reference assemblies are located at '$PSHOME\ref'.
         private static string s_netcoreAppRefFolder = PathType.Combine(PathType.GetDirectoryName(typeof(PSObject).Assembly.Location), "ref");
         private static string s_frameworkFolder = PathType.GetDirectoryName(typeof(object).Assembly.Location);
 
@@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands
         /// </summary>
         private static IEnumerable<PortableExecutableReference> InitDefaultRefAssemblies()
         {
-            // netcoreapp2.0 currently comes with 137 reference assemblies (maybe more in future), so we use a capacity of '150'.
+            // netcoreapp2.1 currently comes with 144 reference assemblies (maybe more in future), so we use a capacity of '150'.
             var defaultRefAssemblies = new List<PortableExecutableReference>(150);
 
             foreach (string file in Directory.EnumerateFiles(s_netcoreAppRefFolder, "*.dll", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly))
diff --git a/src/ResGen/ResGen.csproj b/src/ResGen/ResGen.csproj
index 1283eb4b85..28c8385af8 100644
--- a/src/ResGen/ResGen.csproj
+++ b/src/ResGen/ResGen.csproj
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
   <PropertyGroup>
     <Description>Generates C# typed bindings for .resx files</Description>
-    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.0</TargetFramework>
+    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.1</TargetFramework>
     <AssemblyName>resgen</AssemblyName>
     <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
     <TieredCompilation>true</TieredCompilation>
diff --git a/src/TypeCatalogGen/TypeCatalogGen.csproj b/src/TypeCatalogGen/TypeCatalogGen.csproj
index 9102abcb76..431cd31b92 100644
--- a/src/TypeCatalogGen/TypeCatalogGen.csproj
+++ b/src/TypeCatalogGen/TypeCatalogGen.csproj
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
   <PropertyGroup>
     <Description>Generates CorePsTypeCatalog.cs given powershell.inc</Description>
-    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.0</TargetFramework>
+    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.1</TargetFramework>
     <AssemblyName>TypeCatalogGen</AssemblyName>
     <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
     <TieredCompilation>true</TieredCompilation>
diff --git a/tools/packaging/project/package.csproj b/tools/packaging/project/package.csproj
index e1f68b86c4..5aa7a79d91 100644
--- a/tools/packaging/project/package.csproj
+++ b/tools/packaging/project/package.csproj
@@ -11,6 +11,6 @@
     <NuspecProperties>runtime=$(RID);version=$(SemVer);PackageName=$(PackageName)</NuspecProperties>
     <NuspecBasePath>$(StagingPath)</NuspecBasePath>
     <IsTool>True</IsTool>
-    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.0</TargetFramework>
+    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.1</TargetFramework>
   </PropertyGroup>
 </Project>