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c#asp.net-coreasp.net-core-2.1
JED
JED

Reputation: 1704

ASP.NET Core 2.1 Serve static files from another project

I am attempting to serve an API and Angular Front-End with an ASP.NET Core 2.1 backend. Startup.cs is in the project MyApp.Api. I want my static files to be pulled from the wwwroot of another project, MyApp.FrontEnd.

I have seen this post which describes the following method

app.UseStaticFiles(new StaticFileOptions {
    FileProvider = new EmbeddedFileProvider(
        assembly: Assembly.Load(new AssemblyName("OpenIddict.Assets")),
        baseNamespace: "OpenIddict.Assets")
});

However, when I try to replace "OpenIddicts.Assets" with my project name, I get the following error:

FTL Application startup exception System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'MyApp.FrontEnd, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'. The system cannot find the file specified. File name: 'MyApp.FrontEnd, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'

The GitHub repository referenced in the post linked above seems to no longer exist. I assume I'm missing somewhere fairly obvious. Any help would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2850

Answers (1)

Severius5
Severius5

Reputation: 548

MyApp.FrontEnd.dll must exist in output folder. If You publish main project (which has reference to MyApp.FrontEnd) then everything should work.

If you have access to some types from assembly then you can try Assembly.GetAssembly(type) instead of Assembly.Load(...), i.e.

app.UseStaticFiles(new StaticFileOptions {
    FileProvider = new EmbeddedFileProvider(
        assembly: Assembly.GetAssembly(typeof(SomeClassFromAssembly)),
        baseNamespace: "OpenIddict.Assets")
});

Upvotes: 1

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