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Question

I upgraded Microsoft.AspNetCore from 2.0.3 to 2.0.5 and my WebAPI project, although running successfully locally, fails to start in production (IIS). Everything was fine in

Answer 1

If you have more than one project in your solution like me:

and if you want to scaffold dbcontext in your "non startup" project (InstantOrder.Functions.Data in my case) then you should add the -StartupProject parameter of the Scaffold-DbContext command like this -

Scaffold-DbContext "Server=..." -Project InstantOrder.Functions.Data -StartupProject InstantOrder.Functions.Data