dotnet run --project [path to csproj file] fails

[ardalis]

Trying to run a solution from the root folder using --project to specify the path to the .csproj (for an ASP.NET Core project) appears to run kestrel correctly on localhost:5000, but when you hit the URL in the browser nothing is logged to console and the browser just gets a 500 error with no details.

Navigating to the folder directly and running dotnet run from the folder where the web csproj file is located runs correctly.

Folder structure:
/Solution File
/src/Web/Web.csproj

Sample output:

[eerhardt]

This is an issue with the ASP.NET templates - it sets the content root to be the current working directory, which in this case is C:\dev\GitHub\ddd-guestbook. See @davidfowl's and @natemcmaster's replies in this conversation: https://github.com/dotnet/cli/issues/4473#issuecomment-256213294

[eerhardt]

Closing as this is not a dotnet/sdk issue.

[ardalis]

Makes sense, thanks.