ASP.NET Core 2: missing ApplicationInsights

Question

I am publishing ASP.NET Core 2 application and seeing the following error.

Error:
  An assembly specified in the application dependencies manifest (MyApp.deps.js         


        

Answer 1

This problem is discussed in great detail here: https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/13542 It seems to be related to updating Microsoft.AspNetCore.All to version 2.0.3 or higher in your project.

Following the above discussion it seems that for some time a solution was to install the latest .NET Core SDK on the hosting machine. But at least with the current SDK 2.1.300 this did not solve the problem for me.

The solution for me was, to add the following line to the .csproj of my main project:

  
    false
  

With this line ALL framework dependencies will be packed into the publishing folder! The published data of one of my projects grew from 15 Mb to 55 Mb with this switch. But at least this works, until there is a better solution.