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I get RazorLightException when trying to call lib that contains razor templates from console application
See original GitHub issueException text:
RazorLight.RazorLightException: 'Can't load metadata reference from the entry assembly. Make sure preserveCompilationContext is set to true in buildOptions section of project.json or in *.csproj file'
Here is the solution with isolated case: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AuXjDEud3Cas10ihf9jpraKC316w
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- Created 6 years ago
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- Comments:6 (2 by maintainers)
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Add
<PreserveCompilationContext>true</PreserveCompilationContext>to the csproj, worked for me!@ossaltu, I suspect that you didn’t clean the project before rebuilding and trying that again. It was an issue for myself. I’ve just created the PR to add this warning to README.