The current .NET SDK does not support targeting .NET Core 2.2. (SDK 2.2.202)

Question

Another one of those many many similar issues, yet none of the solutions searched for, helped (see below which one are looked at).

At the moment of writing this, .NE

Answer 1

Adding @martin-ullrich's answer from https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetCore.Docs/issues/11844, because it made more sense to me. (Maybe 'cuz it's Friday, and I just needed: "Go here and do this.")

Go to https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-core/2.2 and download the installer for the 2.2.105 version. Anything >= 2.2.200 will not work in VS 2017. Both 2.2.105 and 2.2.202 contain the latest and greatest .NET Core 2.2 version but they differ in the version of the tools they include and are based on - the 1xx train is MSBuild 15., NuGet 4. etc. and the 2xx train is MSBuild 16., NuGet 5. and so on and Visual Studio only looks for the latest version compatible with its version of MSBuild - for VS 2017 this is 2.1.502 version which cannot target .NET Core 2.2. (And to add more confusion, there are now 2.1.6xx versions with VS 2019 tool versions together with the .NET Core 2.1 runtime)

[@]leecow and [@]rowanmiller are working on updating that page regarding VS, also see dotnet/core#2542 and dotnet/sdk#3076 which are about the same problem.

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My contribution: After installing 2.2.105, I deleted the folder(s) titled '2.2.202' in directory C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet\sdk and/or C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk so that dotnet --info now reads the following: