How to fix DNX/DNVM in Visual Studio 2015?

Question

Today I installed VS 2015 on Windows 7 x64. Mainly to test new .Net Core features and etc. And for test I created new C# \"Console Application (Package)\" solution and got t

Answer 1

This is a known issue.

ASP.NET 5: On Windows 7 SP1, DNX SDK cannot be installed without Powershell 3.0.

Symptoms

When you create an ASP.NET 5 project, you receive the following error message:

DNX SDK version 'dnx-clr-win-x86.1.0.0-beta5' failed to install. The solution will use DNX SDK version 'dnx-clr-win-x86-1.0.0-beta5' for this session

Workaround

To work around this issue, install Windows Powershell 3.0 (or higher) and try to create the project again. To see your current PS version, run $PsVersionTable command (details).

Links:

• How to Install Windows PowerShell 4.0.
• Install PowerShell 3.0 on Windows 7.