System could not be found Visual Studio 2017 ASP.NET Core project

Question

I\'ve installed the newly released version of Visual Studio 2017 and started a fresh ASP.NET Core project targeting .NET Core.

Out of the box, I\'m getting the

Answer 1

The problem for me occurred when running my Visual Studio as Admin with a separate user-- I had created a Git Repo with the source files in the user documents of my normal account. When I created a new solution in that folder the above errors occurred. Try creating your project in a different place and see if the error still occurs.