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asp.net-core.net-core
Guerrilla
Guerrilla

Reputation: 14846

Default ASP.NET core project failing to publish

I am making my first .net core app. I just created the default asp.net core web app inside visual studio template and then tried dotnet publish but I get this error:

PM> dotnet publish
dotnet : 'D:\Projects\coreTest\CoreTest' does not contain a project.json file
At line:1 char:1
+ dotnet publish
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: ('D:\Projects\co...oject.json file:String) [], RemoteException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NativeCommandError

I haven't changed anything. The default template includes a project.json file with dependencies listed. Why doesn't it want to publish?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2100

Answers (2)

Tomáš Hübelbauer
Tomáš Hübelbauer

Reputation: 10577

For anyone running into this and ending up on this answer, it is possible that you have a mismatch between dotnet --version on different machines where you are trying to compile.

There is a breaking change in transitioning from project.json back to MS Build.

I was trying to compile an app built for the MS Build version on an environment with the project.json version and ran into this. As a noob when it comes to new .NET stuff, and having not followed the changes too closely, I didn't realize this was the culprit for some time.

Upvotes: 1

Guerrilla
Guerrilla

Reputation: 14846

This seems to be a bug with package manager. I managed to publish the project by right clicking the project and selecting publish.

Upvotes: 1

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