Hello,
I tried to create a simple asp.net web service and reproduce the problem. It seems, with simple service and simple local publishing it works fine. Could you please heck if that problem appears for you for the particular project only, or for any newly created as well?
Thanks in advance.
I cannot open your project in VS2017, it complains about wrong targets (VisualStudio\v16.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets). I can fix that locally to use v15.0 instead. But that was a reason why I thought you used VS2019.
Okay. it sounds like this issue is simply a side effect of the wrongly created project from the other thread, then — not a separate issue that needs a separate fix, correct?
Theo, could you please try if the problem appears for you with the newly created web service project, with no changes in it? I cannot reproduce the problem with your project as well.
As for targets - we are working on the solution right now. There is a bug, and reinstalling will not help. But if you change the path to targets to use v15.0 locally, it might help for your problem. You will be able to open the project.