The title really says it all already. I have a website running on .NET 4.8.1. And a whole bunch of libraries that are currently also targetting .NET 4.8.1.
I want to use a lot of these libraries in a new .NET Core application.Because one of these libraries contained a lot of references to membership which is no longer included in .NET Standard/.NET Core, I changed the membership to Identity. I put a few of these files in a new project that targets .NET Standard 2.0, so that I can also use identity in a new Blazor web application in the future.
However when I reference this project from my ASP.NET web application, Visual Studio does not show any build errors, but when I try to run the web application, I get the following error:
Could not load file or assembly 'netstandard, Version=2.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=cc7b13ffcd2ddd51' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
Exception Details: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'netstandard, Version=2.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=cc7b13ffcd2ddd51' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
How can I make sure this works?
I tried updating my ASP.NET web application to package reference, but then Visual Studio throws an error saying my project is not applicable for updating to package reference.
Is there a way to make this work? Tried installing netstandard.library through nuget but also this did not work.
Thanks