Generating an IRX for a .NET Core project
Scanning of .NET Core projects is supported through the Command Line Interface (CLI) and through the Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio 2019 plugins on Windows only.
.NET Core scanning
AppScan on Cloud does not support the portable PDB format, which is the default in Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio 2019.
- For C# projects:
- In Visual Studio, right-click the project and choose Properties.
- Click the Build tab.
- Click the Advanced button.
- Set the Debugging Information setting to Full.
- For VB.NET projects:
- In Visual Studio, right-click the project and choose Properties.
- Click the Compile tab.
- Click the Advanced Compile Options button.
- Set the Generate debug Info setting to Full.
- For C# and VB.NET projects with Visual Studio 2022:
- In Solution Explorer, right-click the project and choose Properties.
- In the side pane, choose .
- In the Debug symbols list, choose PDB file, current platform.
Scanning .NET Core through the CLI
HCL AppScan on Cloud supports scanning of self-contained deployments of .NET Core projects and scanning of .NET Core projects in Visual Studio solution files from the CLI.
- Publish the project from the command line:
- Open a command prompt and change to the project directory.
- For .NET Core 1.x only, run the
restore
command:dotnet restore
- For all versions, run the
publish
command:dotnet publish [-o|--output] [-r|--runtime]
For example, if the .NET Core project is located inC:\Test\AwesomeApplication\
:- Launch the Visual Studio Developer command prompt.
- Change directories to
C:\Test\AwesomeApplication
. - Run the
publish
command:dotnet publish -r win-x64
- Publish the project from within Visual Studio:
- In Visual Studio, right-click the project and choose Publish.
- Create a new publish profile and specify publishing options, including target location.
After the publish completes, change directories to the output directory (for example,
C:\Test\AwesomeApplication\bin\debug\netcoreapp2.0\publish
) and run the appscan prepare
command.
Scanning .NET Core through the Visual Studio 2017 or Visual Studio 2019 plugin
Scanning of all .NET projects that target .NET Core, including ASP.NET, is supported.
- In Visual Studio, right-click the project and choose .
Troubleshooting
If you encounter issues, verify the following:
- Use the Visual Studio NuGet Package Manager to add any third-party dependencies to your project.
- Alter the
csproj
file to include package references and/or runtime identifiers by editing thecsproj
file directly or using the Visual Studio IDE (Right-click on the project then choose .- Add package references to third-party libraries to the
<ItemGroup>
section of the file. For example, to includeJson.Net
:<PackageReference Include="Newtonsoft.json" Version="10.0.1" />
- Runtime identifiers can be included anywhere in the file. For example, to identify
Win10-x64
:<RuntimeIdentifiers>win10-x64</RuntimeIdentifiers>
- Add package references to third-party libraries to the
For more information on publishing and Microsoft commands, please refer to these Microsoft documents: