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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

2 cents: If you just take from the build folder, the dlls for the dependency aren't provided. If you publish the folder, they are. This was the fix for me.