diff --git a/eng/Build.props b/eng/Build.props
index 450f8731ad..876c87b6f4 100644
--- a/eng/Build.props
+++ b/eng/Build.props
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 
     <!-- Exclude the benchmarks because they use <PackageReference>. -->
     <ProjectToExclude Include="
-                      $(RepoRoot)src\Components\benchmarkapps\**\*.csproj;
+                      $(RepoRoot)src\Components\benchmarkapps\BlazingPizza.Server\**\*.csproj;
                       $(RepoRoot)src\Mvc\benchmarkapps\**\*.csproj;
                       $(RepoRoot)src\Servers\Kestrel\perf\PlatformBenchmarks\**\*.csproj;
                       $(RepoRoot)src\SignalR\perf\benchmarkapps\**\*.csproj;
diff --git a/src/Components/benchmarkapps/Wasm.Performance/Driver/Wasm.Performance.Driver.csproj b/src/Components/benchmarkapps/Wasm.Performance/Driver/Wasm.Performance.Driver.csproj
index cf35be4e00..0eef376a86 100644
--- a/src/Components/benchmarkapps/Wasm.Performance/Driver/Wasm.Performance.Driver.csproj
+++ b/src/Components/benchmarkapps/Wasm.Performance/Driver/Wasm.Performance.Driver.csproj
@@ -1,17 +1,18 @@
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
 
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <!-- Intentionally pinned this to .NET Core 3.1 since that's the supported version in the docker image -->
-    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp3.1</TargetFramework>
-
-    <UseLatestAspNetCoreReference>true</UseLatestAspNetCoreReference>
+    <TargetFramework>$(DefaultNetCoreTargetFramework)</TargetFramework>
     <OutputType>exe</OutputType>
 
+    <HasReferenceAssembly>false</HasReferenceAssembly>
+    <IsProjectReferenceProvider>false</IsProjectReferenceProvider>
+
     <!-- WebDriver is not strong-named, so this test project cannot be strong named either. -->
     <SignAssembly>false</SignAssembly>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
+    <Reference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.Cors" />
     <Reference Include="Selenium.Support" />
     <Reference Include="Selenium.WebDriver" />
     <ProjectReference Include="..\..\..\Blazor\DevServer\src\Microsoft.AspNetCore.Blazor.DevServer.csproj" />
diff --git a/src/Components/benchmarkapps/Wasm.Performance/TestApp/Wasm.Performance.TestApp.csproj b/src/Components/benchmarkapps/Wasm.Performance/TestApp/Wasm.Performance.TestApp.csproj
index 3fb5a922a3..3d28c77a21 100644
--- a/src/Components/benchmarkapps/Wasm.Performance/TestApp/Wasm.Performance.TestApp.csproj
+++ b/src/Components/benchmarkapps/Wasm.Performance/TestApp/Wasm.Performance.TestApp.csproj
@@ -2,8 +2,11 @@
 
   <PropertyGroup>
     <TargetFramework>netstandard2.1</TargetFramework>
-    <ReferenceBlazorBuildLocally>true</ReferenceBlazorBuildLocally>
     <RazorLangVersion>3.0</RazorLangVersion>
+
+    <HasReferenceAssembly>false</HasReferenceAssembly>
+    <IsProjectReferenceProvider>false</IsProjectReferenceProvider>
+    <ReferenceBlazorBuildLocally>true</ReferenceBlazorBuildLocally>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
diff --git a/src/Components/benchmarkapps/Wasm.Performance/dockerfile b/src/Components/benchmarkapps/Wasm.Performance/dockerfile
index 69f27a9212..410556f21a 100644
--- a/src/Components/benchmarkapps/Wasm.Performance/dockerfile
+++ b/src/Components/benchmarkapps/Wasm.Performance/dockerfile
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ RUN git init \
     && git reset --hard FETCH_HEAD \
     && git submodule update --init
 
-RUN dotnet publish -c Release -r linux-x64 -o /app ./src/Components/benchmarkapps/Wasm.Performance/Driver/Wasm.Performance.Driver.csproj
+RUN ./restore.sh
+RUN .dotnet/dotnet publish -c Release -r linux-x64 -o /app ./src/Components/benchmarkapps/Wasm.Performance/Driver/Wasm.Performance.Driver.csproj
 RUN chmod +x /app/Wasm.Performance.Driver
 
 WORKDIR /app