The library hostpolicy.dll was not found

Question

I have a simple .NET Core project (console app) that I\'m trying to compile and run. dotnet build succeeds, but I get the following error when I do dotnet

Answer 1

Promoting voltrevo's comment as an answer as I believe this should be the most common case of the problem. When you build your solution, sometimes you might get 2 directories with outputs bin and obj. 'Bin' directory has everything that is needed to run dotnet.exe command. Just run from the bin directory and things should be good. :)