Self-contained deployment .NET Core app in Ubuntu - .net-core

I wrote a test project using .NET Core and assembled the self-contained deployment for Ubuntu 16.04 as described here (see Self-contained deployment without third-party dependencies).
But when I run the app I get the following error:
An assembly specified in the application dependencies manifest (Test.deps.json) was not found:
package: 'runtime.linux-x64.Microsoft.NETCore.App', version: '2.0.0-preview2-25407-01'
path: 'runtimes/linux-x64/lib/netcoreapp2.0/Microsoft.CSharp.dll'
I am using .NET Core 2.0 Preview 2, VS2017 Preview.
I will be grateful for any help!

This is an old question, but I just ran across this when I was trying to run a .Net Core application on Linux and wanted to share the solution. If you are getting the error above, you are likely trying to execute the wrong binary. For those following along from scratch, follow these steps:
On Windows, open a command prompt in the directory of the project you want to run on Linux.
Build the project for Linux using dotnet publish -r linux-x64
I chose to target linux-x64, but you can target a specific runtime if you'd like. Runtime identifiers can be found here.
Copy the published files to the Linux workstation. Because the above command omitted the configuration flag -c, the configuration defaulted to debug. The published files will be in Debug\netcoreapp2.0\linux-x64\publish
Note: there will be binaries in Debug\netcoreapp2.0\linux-x64\ too. These are not the binaries you want to copy to your Linux workstation. If you run these binaries, you will get the error described in the OP. Copy all the files in the publish directory instead. Ignore whatever files might be in linux-x64.
On the Linux workstation, give execute permission to the binary file. My project was named ConsoleUI, so I used chmod 764 ConsoleUI
Execute the binary using ./ConsoleUI
Keep in mind that you will need to at least have the .Net Core runtime installed on your Linux workstation.

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dotnet build stopped working after VS 2022 upgrade

I upgraded Visual Studio Community to the final release, and it stopped working. Specifically, I could generate a new project, but when I try to load it, it gave me an error
Critical Project 'SdkTest' load failed| [MSB4236] The SDK 'Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web' specified could not be found. ...\SdkTest.csproj
Even though build and run worked fine
I ran "repair" on VS2022, and it seems to be working now from Visual Studio. However, dotnet --info doesn't show any SDKs; only runtime; and dotnet build or dotnet new give an error:
C:\Code>dotnet new console -o myapp
Could not execute because the application was not found or a compatible .NET SDK is not installed.
Possible reasons for this include:
* You intended to execute a .NET program:
The application 'new' does not exist.
* You intended to execute a .NET SDK command:
It was not possible to find any installed .NET SDKs.
Install a .NET SDK from:
https://aka.ms/dotnet-download
I even reinstalled .NET 6 and I see it in the list of applications (along with older SDKs). I checked the path, and I see everything that I expect to see:
C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet\
C:\Program Files\dotnet\
C:\Users\me\.dotnet\tools
I am running Windows 11.
It's known bug in VS2022 installation.
Problem is that dotnet you access is located inside Program Files(x86)/dotnet, but all sdk's are located in Program Files/dotnet. You simply need to edit PATH environment variable so Program Files/dotnet goes before Program Files(x86)/dotnet. If you don't see Program Files(x86)/dotnet in user environment variable (which is likely to happen) then edit system environment variable (located below)
Example with screenshots: https://stackoverflow.com/a/44272417/10339675

Run dotnet-sos, dotnet-dump, dotnet-gcdump for a self-contained .NET Core application on Linux

I have an Ubuntu 18.04 x64 Linux server running a bunch of .NET Core applications. All of them are published as self-contained applications and .NET Core versions vary between 2.1, 3.1 and 5.0. I don't have .NET Core runtime (let alone SDK) installed on the machine and do not want to install it.
I want to run tools such as dotnet-sos, dotnet-dump and dotnet-gcdump for a .NET Core 3.1 self-contained application. The linked pages provide direct download links for them, e.g. https://aka.ms/dotnet-sos/linux-x64. However, when I run the downloaded dotnet-sos tool it fails with
A fatal error occurred. The required library libhostfxr.so could not be found.
If this is a self-contained application, that library should exist in [/var/tmp/.net/MY_USERNAME/dotnet-sos/mrdxw5vu.czm/].
If this is a framework-dependent application, install the runtime in the global location [/usr/share/dotnet] or use the DOTNET_ROOT environment variable to specify the runtime location or register the runtime location in [/etc/dotnet/install_location].
The .NET Core runtime can be found at:
- https://aka.ms/dotnet-core-applaunch?missing_runtime=true&arch=x64&rid=ubuntu.18.04-x64
This happens even if the current working directory is my .NET application directory, which contains
libhostfxr.so. The error implies that running the tool for a self-contained application should be possible, but the file indeed does not exist in /var/tmp/.net/MY_USERNAME/dotnet-sos/mrdxw5vu.czm/. If I manually copy that file to the above directory it then fails with
It was not possible to find any compatible framework version
The framework 'Microsoft.NETCore.App', version '3.1.0' was not found.
- No frameworks were found.
You can resolve the problem by installing the specified framework and/or SDK.
The specified framework can be found at:
- https://aka.ms/dotnet-core-applaunch?framework=Microsoft.NETCore.App&framework_version=3.1.0&arch=x64&rid=ubuntu.18.04-x64
How do I run such tools without installing the .NET runtime machine-wide? I can easily download the binaries from https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/thank-you/runtime-3.1.14-linux-x64-binaries but where do I put them for the tool to find them?
Turns out the .NET SDK can be extracted to any directory and then used to install and run dotnet-dump and dotnet-gcdump like this:
curl -fsSL https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/scripts/v1/dotnet-install.sh | bash -s -- --no-path --install-dir ~/dotnet-sdk --channel 5.0
~/dotnet-sdk/dotnet tool install --tool-path ~/dotnet-sdk/tools dotnet-dump
DOTNET_ROOT=~/dotnet-sdk ~/dotnet-sdk/tools/dotnet-dump collect -p PID_TO_DUMP
(I did not manage to get SOS working in LLDB, however. "Installing" it works just as above, but it fails to load in LLDB.)

dotnet publish results include different set of libraries when run in linux/windows

While configuring some of our gitlab runners - some Windows, others Linux - I noticed something I find curious. The artifacts created by Linux runners include some libraries that are not included in the artifacts created by Windows runners.
The files in question are:
System.Collections.Immutable.dll
System.ComponentModel.Annotations.dll
System.Diagnostics.DiagnosticSource.dll
This happens no matter if a target runtime has been specified or not, e.g.
dotnet publish ./Project/Project.csproj -c Release
will include the three files mentioned above when run under Linux, but not when run under Windows (SDK 3.1.300). The project runs just fine without these.
Can anyone explain what's happening here? I was under the impression the result of a dotnet publish command is always the same regardless of the OS.

How to restore an ASP.NET Core project with Ubuntu

Recently, I created an asp.net core project using Visual Studio Code on Windows and pushed it to GitHub. When I cloned the repo from GitHub and attempted to do a dotnet restore on the project on Ubuntu, an error message stating there was no project.json file was returned. Can anyone point me to a resource that will show me how to properly restore a .net core project from a Linux machine? Thanks!
So it seems like on each of your machines you are running different versions of the .net core SDK.
A big caveat with what you are trying to do. Are you trying to use Project Rider from Jetbrains on Linux? This only works with project.json (As of the time of this post) so be wary of that.
Now there are two ways to do this. If you are wanting the very latest on Linux and don't care about using Rider, then you can go here : https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/master/release-notes/download-archive.md and download the latest release for both Linux and Windows, install on both and you should be good to go.
If you do care about using Rider or you aren't ready to be strapped in for the wild ride of the latest release. Then you can do the following.
Find what version of the SDK you have on linux by typing into a terminal the following :
dotnet --version
This will spit out what version you have on linux. Go here and download the same version for windows and install it on your windows machine (https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/master/release-notes/download-archive.md).
Now BEFORE you create a project, create a solution folder and create a file in it called global.json. Inside that put the following :
"sdk": {
"version": "1.0.0-preview2-003131"
}
Where the SDK version matches what you got from your linux terminal. Now create a folder for your project inside the solution folder. Run "dotnet new -t web" or a similar command to create your project. It will inspect the SDK version of the global.json and create a project with the tooling that matches. You should then be able to shift this project around any machine that has the same SDK installed, even if it also has the latest SDK's also.
If you do not create the global.json, it defaults to the latest version (Atleast on Windows).
Read a bit more about it here : http://dotnetcoretutorials.com/2017/02/17/developing-two-versions-net-core-sdk-side-side/

Dotnet Core publish to IIS from Mac

I want to publish my dotnet core app to IIS from mac. I use VS code for code writing and Dotnet Core 1.1 for publishing to local directory. (for example: bin/release/publish). There are compiled my files, ready to copy to IIS. On my IIS I currently have installed web deploy 3.6 and this is my VPS machine. Is there elegant way, how to copy files? The another way is using docker, but in this case I have the same problem. Generated docker file with docker publisher tool and I need to copy from mac os.
Thank you for your time.
From a terminal window navigate to the folder where your .csproj file is. From there run 'dotnet publish -c release'. A folder called publish will be created in bin/Release/netcoreappX.X. You can copy those files to the appropriate directory on your server. If you need help setting up IIS, follow the link below.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/publishing/iis
You can also run 'dotnet publish -h' to see all of the different arguments you can pass to the publish command.
Web Deploy (msdeploy.exe) seems to work in Mono, at least in WSL (Ubuntu 18.04). The tricky part is to extract the msi package somehow, which you can do easily on a Windows machine (you'll find the files in C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy V3).
Once you install Mono and obtain msdeploy.exe, just call the command, e.g.
mono msdeploy.exe -verb:sync -source:contentPath=/mnt/c/Data -dest:contentPath=test,ComputerName=https://example.com:8172/msdeploy.axd,UserName=WDeployAdmin,Password=PASSWORD,IncludeAcls=False,AuthType=Basic -enableRule:AppOffline -enableRule:DoNotDeleteRule -verbose -allowUntrusted:true
This lets you sync/copy the contents of /mnt/c/Data with the test web site in IIS on example.com with Web Deploy enabled.

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