Netcore 2.1.1 release leads to app failing to run

Question

It seems there is suddenly something out of sync with asp.net core packages.

It looks like Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 2.1.1 was released 16 hours ago on nuget.org but

Answer 1

In addition to other suggestions, I needed to up the Microsoft.NetCore.App to 2.1.1. Since I couldn't do it via the UI, adding the following to the .csproj worked.