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

I had this error however my solution was somewhat different from what was posted above. My problem was that I was deploying via a zip file and while building the zip file I wasn't including sub directories therefore required files were not being included.

So if you are publishing via a zip file make sure to include all sub folders while building the zip.