when my release pipeline builds and tries to deploy the code to my App Service, I get this exception:
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Diagnostics: Hosting startup assembly exceptionSystem.InvalidOperationException: Startup assembly Microsoft.AspNetCore.AzureAppServices.HostingStartup failed to execute. See the inner exception for more details.---> System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.AspNetCore.AzureAppServices.HostingStartup, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'. The system cannot find the file specified.File name: 'Microsoft.AspNetCore.AzureAppServices.HostingStartup, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly.<InternalLoad>g____PInvoke|49_0(NativeAssemblyNameParts* __pAssemblyNameParts_native, ObjectHandleOnStack __requestingAssembly_native, StackCrawlMarkHandle __stackMark_native, Int32 __throwOnFileNotFound_native, ObjectHandleOnStack __assemblyLoadContext_native, ObjectHandleOnStack __retAssembly_native) at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly.InternalLoad(NativeAssemblyNameParts* pAssemblyNameParts, ObjectHandleOnStack requestingAssembly, StackCrawlMarkHandle stackMark, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, ObjectHandleOnStack assemblyLoadContext, ObjectHandleOnStack retAssembly) at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly.InternalLoad(AssemblyName assemblyName, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, AssemblyLoadContext assemblyLoadContext, RuntimeAssembly requestingAssembly, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound) at System.Reflection.Assembly.Load(AssemblyName assemblyRef) at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.GenericWebHostBuilder.ExecuteHostingStartups()The project is running the .NET 8 version and all packages are updated with the Framework version, this error does not show locally and it only happens when i try to Start the App service after deploying the code.
Could it be the App Configuration section in Azure portal where maybe the Stack/Version of .NET is not up to date with the framework?
Tried to update the packages but nothing fixed it