Why doesn't AutogenerateBindingRedirects work for a Web.config in Visual Studio 2017

Question

I have a reference to a .Net Standard 2.0 library that requires Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client 5.2.4. This has a lot of dependencies that need to be redirected to use newer vers

Answer 1

For iis express: In Web.config replace section assemblyBinding with

For iis and iis express:

add to project Scripts\CopyRuntimeSection.ps1

param ($from, $to)
$projectPath = Resolve-Path "$($PSScriptRoot)\..\"

$fromFilePath = "$projectPath\$from";
$toFilePath = "$projectPath\$to";

$fromFileXml = [xml](Get-Content -Path $fromFilePath -Raw)
$toFileXml = [xml](Get-Content -Path $toFilePath -Raw)

$toFileXml.configuration.runtime.InnerXml = $fromFileXml.configuration.runtime.InnerXml
$toFileXml.Save($toFilePath)

add to csproj