Cannot find compilation library location for package 'Microsoft.NETCore.App'

Question

I've upgraded from .NET Core 2.0 to 2.1.1 (so many elements that gets highly confusing).

I built my project and now I'm getting this error:

Cannot find compilation library location for package 'Microsoft.NETCore.App'

I don't know what other information should I provide. Please guide me in providing more info on this issue.

It's such a frustrating experience. Upgrading backward compatible version in Semantic Versioning shouldn't break things. I wish they had versioned this release as .NET Core 3.0, so that we wouldn't upgrade. Any help?

Update: I created this issue on GitHub.

Answer 1

I did simple fix for this issue, I selected option to remove additional files at destination before publish and then it solved my issue.

Answer 2

Just set MvcRazorExcludeRefAssembliesFromPublish to false in your .csproj file and that should fix the issue.