“The library 'hostpolicy.dll' required” if run from deploy folder, but emitEntryPoint is true

Question

I created a Web API project using the default ASP.NET Core Web Application (.NET Framework) template and then published to local folder using VS.

Now if I call

Answer 1

Make sure you install the correct version of ASP Net Core in the server.

Here is the download link:

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-core

Answer 2

We ran in the same problem building our app in CI. Apparantly a reference towards another unittest project slipped in. This Created the error at hand.

Answer 3

Once you publish the application and have a .exe file, you don't need to use dotnet anymore. The application is compiled!

Just run application.exe by double-clicking it, or launching it from the console.