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ConsoleRazor.zip

Included is a VS 2017 (V 15.7.5) DotNet 2.1 single project that renders a simple page using RazorViewToStringRenderer (the simplest I could find).

But the app fails on GetView (line 69 is the message) and returns errors like:

error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'Razor' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft.AspNetCore'
error CS0518: Predefined type 'System.String' is not defined or imported
The type 'Attribute' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced. You must add a reference to assembly 'netstandard, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=cc7b13ffcd2ddd51'.
Predefined type 'System.Int32' is not defined or imported

etc.

Obviously something is very wrong.

My ultimate aim is to get this going in a Class Library that I can call from the Test framework, but I was trying the standalone Console App first to make sure I had the pieces right.

Can anyone point me to what I am doing wrong here?

This page https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38247080/using-razor-outside-of-mvc-in-net-core
points out:

// for some reason on .NET core, I need to add this... this is not needed with .NET framework MetadataReference.CreateFromFile(Path.Combine(Path.GetDirectoryName(typeof(object).Assembly.Location), "System.Runtime.dll")),

Do I need to do something like this for DotNet 2.1?

Thank you for any help.