.NET Core 2.0 missing from my Visual Studio

Question

So I\'ve installed the official .NET Core 2.0 SDK and when I\'m in Visual Studio i get heaps of errors and the target framework is not listed :(

It\'s like .NET Cor

Answer 1

In my case this was caused by another executable called "dotnet.exe" that was in my path before the one from the SDK. It seems that VS doesn't deal with this well.

Answer 2

Please make sure you use Visual Studio 2017 Update 3 (version 15.3, 26730.01): Help -> About Microsoft Visual Studio

Answer 3

You may need to add "%USERPROFILE%\.dotnet\" to your PATH. The Entity Framework Core project mentions it.

Answer 4

I just ran into this issue. Reinstalling the sdk and VS didn't help. The issue ended up being an incorrect order of paths in the System Path variable. As soon as I moved C:\Program Files\dotnet\ before C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet\ VS was able to pickup the correct sdks.

Answer 5

Ah!

I had the following global.json in the root of my solution:

{
  "projects": [ "src", "tests" ],
  "sdk": {
    "version": "1.0.4"
  }
}

So I had to change the version from 1.0.4 to 2.0.0 and then close/re-open the solution.

Problem solved :)

Answer 6

For using .net core 2 or higher, you need visual studio 15.3 version or higher,update your visual studio and then, you need to install SDK.