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

In most case you get that error because there's misalignment of versions.

I changed the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Design version, an it worked.

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