Cannot add duplicate collection entry of type ‘add’ with unique key attribute ‘name’ set to ‘aspNetCore

The answer above didn’t work for me, however DavidG’s comment did solve my problem, so going to post as an answer in case it helps someone else.

For me, I was not running it as a sub-application, and a project that had been working for me no issue for over a year suddenly stopped working with this issue. Still not sure what changed. When I commented out or removed the <add name="aspNetCore".../> the error persisted, and then that line got automatically re-added.

To solve the problem, I added <remove name="aspNetCore" /> to the config file, right above the <add name="aspNetCore"... /> entry, and things started working again.

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