Aspnetcore.docs: dotnet watch run doesn't work with relative paths with the --project or -p option

[abjbhat]

Unless I'm in the actual directory itself, dotnet watch run --profile relative/path/to/project.csproj doesn't work. The error message that no msbuild project was found keeps getting displayed. You have to navigate to the folder under which the csproj file is located.

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• ID: 75e3163f-1903-f2c7-8909-d34f917944bf
• Version Independent ID: 55aae418-9d32-5b2b-1df7-5e4e76313ec4
• Content: Develop ASP.NET Core apps using a file watcher
• Content Source: aspnetcore/tutorials/dotnet-watch.md
• Product: aspnet-core
• Technology: aspnetcore-tutorials
• GitHub Login: @Rick-Anderson
• Microsoft Alias: riande

[Rick-Anderson]

That's how it works. Feel free to open a product bug if you think it should support relative paths.

[serpent5]

This works if you attach the --project switch to watch rather than to run:

dotnet watch --project relative/path/to/project.csproj run

[Rick-Anderson]

@serpent5 that sounds like great info to add to the article. Are you interested in PRing it?

[serpent5]

Yeah, of course, I'll do that. :)