You know what? Just forget it. I've changed my project from .Net Core to .Net Framework. For one thing, I tried also creating a .Net Core project configured for database connectivity. And that introduced Entity Framework, which is the most obnoxious thing ever. .Net Core, with all of its DI and its nested parentheses constructs, is the most obtuse looking code I've ever seen. And then the documentation stinks, and the incomplete code examples get you nowhere. .Net Core is like evolution in reverse.