C# code written in Visual Studio won't run in Visual Studio Code

Question

I am trying to run a .NET Core Application in Visual Studio Code that was created in Visual Studio 2019. I'm having trouble with the dotnet run part, though. It keeps giving me this error:

Unable to run your project.
Ensure you have a runnable project type and ensure 'dotnet run' supports this project.
A runnable project should target a runnable TFM (for instance, netcoreapp2.0) and have OutputType 'Exe'.
The current OutputType is 'Exe'.

I have tried dotnet restore, dotnet build, dotnet clean, etc. Any suggestions on how to get this to run?

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Answer 1

I am not sure if this is your problem, but I experienced something similar recently. Some applications coded in VS will not run in VS Code. VS 2019 utilizes IIS Express to run applcations on localhost. I do not believe VS Code has this ability as a text editor, compared to the power of VS 2019 as a IDE.