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“rzc discover exited with code -2147450749” and “hostpolicy.dll required” errors

January 15, 2020January 15, 2020 Ned Leave a comment

We have recently upgrade a .NET Core 2.2 application to 3.1 version. While trying to run it in Visual Studio, we came across “rzc discover exited” and “hostpolicy.dll required” errors:

In Visual Studio output while trying to run the solution: rzc discover exited with code -2147450749
In PowerShell after performing “build run” command: A fatal error was encountered. The library 'hostpolicy.dll' required to execute the application was not found in [path]

HTTP Error 500.30 – ANCM In-Process Start Failure (Solved)

January 15, 2020January 15, 2020 Ned 1 Comment

Visual Studio makes it easy to run your application project by using IIS installed in Windows. You don’t have to explicitly go to IIS Manager and deploy your application there. You can simply click the “Run” (green arrow) icon to view your project on browser.

Child object ‘advancedLogging’ cannot be added to object ‘site’

December 20, 2019December 20, 2019 Ned 1 Comment

You can use Web Deploy tool to migrate your IIS websites from one server to another. I have been trying to transfer a site from Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2016 server. I came across this error message: