Start an asp.net core project as x86 under visual studio 2015

Question

I have a vs2015 solution containing an asp.net core project and have configured its project.json as follow :

{
  \"buildOptions\": {
    \"emitEntryPoint\":          


        

Answer 1

This is what worked for me :

An hour ago, visual studio 2015 team released a new update labeled "Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 (KB3165756)"

After installation, everything works as expected.

A big thanks to MS and .net core / vs2015 teams for this extremely timely release :)

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Addendum:

Installing the update isn't enough ( although I suspect it is part of the fix ). The additional steps to make this work you need to follow @VictorHurdugaci directives:

1. Ensure you have installed the x86 version of the .net SDK

2. And ensure PATH order of "C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet\" before "C:\Program Files\dotnet\" the runtime which is not guaranteed when you install the new package ( I wanted to keep both x86 and x64 runtimes )

Thanks VictorHurdugaci, at the end of the day you were absolutely correct.