How to Fix ASP.NET Core cannot find runtime for Framework ‘.NETCoreApp’
CheapWindowsHosting.com | Best and cheap ASP.NET Core hosting. Today I upgrade my ASP.NET Core application from version 1.0 to version 1.0.1 because of a bug in Entity Framework. Right after updating to the latest ASP.NET Core version, I built the project but ended up with the following error in Visual Studio:
Can not find runtime target for framework '.NETFramework,Version=v4.5.1' compatible with one of the target runtimes: 'win10-x64, win81-x64, win8-x64, win7-x64'. Possible causes: The project has not been restored or restore failed - run dotnet restore You may be trying to publish a library, which is not supported. Use dotnet pack to distribute libraries
Fix – Update project.json
After searching around for a few minutes I found issue #2442 on GitHub. This the issue states that you need to update your project.json and you have two options:
(1). Include the platforms you want to build for explicitly:
"runtimes": {
"win10-x64": {},
"win8-x64": {}
}, (2). Update the reference Microsoft.NETCore.App to include the type as platform:
"Microsoft.NETCore.App": {
"version": "1.0.1",
"type": "platform"
}Conclusion
For more information on .NET Core Application Deployment you can read the docs. This is again another reason I love that all this work is being done out in the open. It really makes finding issues and bugs of this type easier. Hope that Helps!
