An assembly specified in the application dependencies manifest (…) was not found

Question

I upgraded Microsoft.AspNetCore from 2.0.3 to 2.0.5 and my WebAPI project, although running successfully locally, fails to start in production (IIS). Everything was fine in

Answer 1

Development machines usually have the SDK installed but on production the runtime only.

Add the following to your .csproj file and publish again.

               
    false