Visual Studio 2017 Asp.Net Core project doesn't copy dependent dll file on build

Question

Visual Studio 2017 Asp.Net Core project doesn't copy dependent dll file on build into bin folder. That happens only on publish.

Before .Net Core I can "Copy local" dependent dll.

How can I explain to Visual Studio that it should copy nuget package dll into bin folder?

Can you include a screenshot of the Properties of the DLL file? — mjwills, Jul 19 '17 at 13:28
I mean .net core project on bulid don't include dependent packages into ./bin folder — Valery Yegorov, Jul 19 '17 at 14:13
What did you conclude from this @ValeryYegorov? Should there be a ``/bin`` folder? — Rasmus Bækgaard, Feb 18 '18 at 11:30
Hi @RasmusBækgaard. I added /lib folder to project and set reference to that folder — Valery Yegorov, Feb 19 '18 at 09:30

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 05 '18 at 21:16

Please open your csproj file on any text editor outside Visual Studio.

You can see next lines of code:

<PropertyGroup>
  <TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.0</TargetFramework>      
</PropertyGroup>

Just change the PropertyGroup section as:

<PropertyGroup>
  <TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.0</TargetFramework>
  <CopyLocalLockFileAssemblies>true</CopyLocalLockFileAssemblies>
</PropertyGroup>

More details you can review here and here.

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