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

Expanding on the other answer from this question, here's a solution that supports incremental builds and uses absolute paths for greater flexibility:

Add this somewhere in your solution (I named it UpdateBindingRedirect.ps1):

param ($from, $to)

$fromFileXml = [xml](Get-Content -Path $from -Raw)
$toFileXml = [xml](Get-Content -Path $to -Raw)

if ( $toFileXml.configuration.runtime.InnerXml -Ne $fromFileXml.configuration.runtime.InnerXml ) {
    $toFileXml.configuration.runtime.InnerXml = $fromFileXml.configuration.runtime.InnerXml
    $toFileXml.Save($to)
}

Add this to your csproj: