How to use UseStaticFiles in ASP.NET Core 1.0

You need to add

"Microsoft.AspNetCore.StaticFiles": "1.0.0",

in your project.json here "1.0.0" is the version you want to use

To add to Asp.Net Core Web API project using .csproj rather than project.json, you can install the package using Nuget Package Manager (search for microsoft.aspnetcore.staticfiles).

in your project.json make sure you have a reference

"Microsoft.AspNet.StaticFiles": "1.0.0-rc1-final"

in RC2 that will likely need to change to Microsoft.AspNetCore.StaticFiles

then you should be able to use

app.UseStaticFiles();

Now with release 1.0 the correct reference will be:

"Microsoft.AspNetCore.StaticFiles": "1.0.0"