Our ASP.NET core RC1 application stopped working and then started working again
<p>We have built an .NET application on ASP.NET core RC1 (release candidate 1) and deployed it on Windows Azure in an Web App container. By August the 2'nd the application stopped working over night. We found out it was caused by the fact that Microsoft stopped supporting RC1 (and RC2 for that matter)  by that date. </p>

<p>The strange thing is that by today the application started working again without any change from our side. </p>

<p>Can anyone explain that behavior? I don't feel very comfortable with these kind of changes in the container environments. </p>

<p>NB: I should add that the error we saw in the log files was this one: </p>

<pre><code>MissingMethodException: Method not found: 'Newtonsoft.Json.JsonSerializerSettings Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.MvcJsonOptions.get_SerializerSettings()'
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