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The Art of Simplicity

A .NET 4.8 ASP.NET MVC project failed due to a System.Object reference error when integrating a .NET Standard 2.0 project. Initial attempts to fix this by manually editing the csproj file and setting the netstandard reference with Copy Local=true worked locally but not on a colleague's machine. The final solution involved adding the NETStandard.Library NuGet package to the project, resolving the issue for all environments.

CS0012: The type 'System.Object' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced.