Project file is incomplete. Expected imports are missing

Question

After format my computer I reinstalled Vs 2017 V 15.6.3 and install ASP.Net Core SDK from Microsoft 2.1.4

But when I create new asp core application VS failed with e

Answer 1

Same issue...took me a while to figure out. Since I was working on an ASP.NET Core project that targeted .NET Core 1.1, I thought I still needed the .NET Core 1.1 SDK installed. Since I had .NET Core SDK 2.1 installed too there was some sort of conflict and I couldn't open the project file. After uninstalling .NET Core 1.1 I was then able to open my project.