ASP.NET Core 0x80004005

Question

I am new to ASP.NET core and I am trying to just get the basic ASP.NET Core Web Application to deploy to a Windows 2012 R2 server.

I can build and run the project lo

Answer 1

This issue is related to Windows updates - but if you are in a similar environment than I was (where you are unable to just install ALL updates), these are the 2 that fixed the issue for me:

I had the same error in question - and got nasty error message when typing 'dotnet' into CMD:

The program can't start because api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll is missing

I solved this by manually installing the following 2 updates on Windows Server 2012 R2 (and the pre-requisites and all the other updates linked - read the installation instructions carefully on the Microsoft website):

1. KB2919355
2. KB2999226

Hope this helps someone.