I am trying to publish an ASP.NET Core application developed on top of full framework (4.6.1) to IIS. Right now the code is just the base template code created using the Visual Studio "ASP.NET Core (.NET Framework) option. The code compiles fine but when I publish it to Local IIS, it fails to start. I get error like
Unhandled Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'Microsoft.Extensions.PlatformAbstractions.PlatformServices' threw an exception. ---> System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Reflection.TypeExtensions, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
at Microsoft.Extensions.PlatformAbstractions.ApplicationEnvironment.GetEntryAssembly()
at Microsoft.Extensions.PlatformAbstractions.ApplicationEnvironment..ctor()
at Microsoft.Extensions.PlatformAbstractions.PlatformServices..ctor()
at Microsoft.Extensions.PlatformAbstractions.PlatformServices..cctor()
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.WebHostBuilder.BuildHostingServices()
at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.WebHostBuilder.Build()
My project.json looks like this
{
"dependencies": {
"Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc": "1.0.0",
"Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.IISIntegration": "1.0.0",
"Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel": "1.0.0",
"Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.EnvironmentVariables": "1.0.0",
"Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.FileExtensions": "1.0.0",
"Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Json": "1.0.0",
"Microsoft.Extensions.Logging": "1.0.0",
"Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Console": "1.0.0",
"Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Debug": "1.0.0",
"Microsoft.Extensions.Options.ConfigurationExtensions": "1.0.0"
},
"tools": {
"Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.IISIntegration.Tools": "1.0.0-preview2-final"
},
"frameworks": {
"net461": { }
},
"buildOptions": {
"emitEntryPoint": true,
"preserveCompilationContext": true
},
"publishOptions": {
"include": [
"wwwroot",
"Views",
"Areas/**/Views",
"appsettings.json",
"web.config"
]
},
"scripts": {
"postpublish": [ "dotnet publish-iis --publish-folder %publish:OutputPath% --framework %publish:FullTargetFramework%" ]
}
}
The same application if targeted towards dotnetcore instead of dotnet461 works fine. All MS documentation seems to say that this scenario is possible and is supported. Has something changed in RTM?