The SDK 'Microsoft.NET.Sdk' specified could not be found. in Visual Studio Community 2022 version 17.5

Raihanudin Rafif 65

Since Visual Studio 2022 updated from version 17.4 to 17.5, I couldn't load my project. and get the error "The SDK 'Microsoft.NET.Sdk' specified could not be found." But if the project was opened in version 17.4, the project was loaded successfully.

Kulani Baloyi 0 Reputation points

2023-05-23T17:27:34.44+00:00

I have been facing the same problem for the past 3 months now !!! Ive tried everything! It just shows an empty solution explorer but when I manually add files to explorer it complains about non-exiting SDK file which makes no sense because its included in installation.

Extremely frustrated please help
Ciro Corvino 20 Reputation points

2024-03-24T00:41:52.47+00:00

I followed this stackoverflow solution https://stackoverflow.com/a/67049415/3762855 and managed to solve the issue

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Tianyu Sun-MSFT 28,941 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2023-02-28T13:54:14.22+00:00
Hello @Raihanudin Rafif ,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.

Please first confirm that .NET SDK has been checked in VS Installer > Modify > Individual components > .NET > .NET SDK. If it isn’t checked, please check it and click Modify.

Please then create a new .NET based project and check if the same error appears, if the same error appears, please try following to narrow down this issue:

Reboot your machine and restart VS.

Repair Visual Studio from VS Installer > More > Repair.

Reset VS settings(run Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio 2022 > run devenv /ResetSettings).

If the same error doesn’t appear, then please try following:

Right-click your project > Unload Project > confirm that the <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk"> line exists > right-click your project again > Reload Project. Open VS Installer > Modify > Individual components > .NET > make sure that .NET SDK has been checked, if not, check it and click Modify.

Remove the hidden .vs, bin and obj folders in your solution/project folder and rebuild your project in VS.

Please feel free to let us know if this issue disappears.

Best Regards,

Tianyu

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Raihanudin Rafif 65 Reputation points

2023-03-01T07:53:30.3833333+00:00

Thank you Mr Tianyu, this case was solved.

Ashley Griggs 0 Reputation points

2023-03-13T15:54:54+00:00

@Tianyu Sun-MSFT I have the same problem, though the steps you outlined do not resolve it. I continue to have the issue even with a new project. What else can be done to diagnose/resolve? Thank you

Tianyu Sun-MSFT 28,941 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2023-03-14T05:56:50.8666667+00:00

Hi @Ashley Griggs ,

Please search Edit the system environment variables in Windows Search box and click Environment Variables… button, under the System variables, select Path and click Edit…

Confirm if both C:\Program Files\dotnet\ and C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet\ paths exist. If both of them exist, please leave C:\Program Files\dotnet\ before C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet\. You can select C:\Program Files\dotnet\ and click Move Up button to move it up.

If you are using any extension/antivirus, please try to disable them temporarily and reboot your machine then test again.

If above suggestions still don’t work, please try to reinstall VS and check again.

Nomer Miranda 0 Reputation points

2023-03-17T16:56:17.87+00:00

ive tried all but it doesnt fix the same problem I still don't see my project when I created one, I have tried uninstalling and resetting the vsc but it still not showing my project when I created one.

Mishra, Priya 0 Reputation points

2023-03-30T12:28:29.0466667+00:00

@Nomer Miranda I'm facing the same issue...did your problem get resolved yet? if yes, can you please tell how did you fix it?

Nikhil Patel 0 Reputation points

2023-08-26T06:55:57.29+00:00

@Tianyu Sun-MSFT you saved my life :). After VS2022 update I was facing this issue and after doing "Confirm if both C:\Program Files\dotnet\ and C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet\ paths exist. If both of them exist, please leave C:\Program Files\dotnet\ before C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet\. You can select C:\Program Files\dotnet\ and click Move Up button to move it up." This step and the machine restart it's looking good. Thank you once again.

moriuse 0 Reputation points

2023-10-05T13:38:11.2366667+00:00

in the environment variables there is 2 set of path variable one for user and one for system you should check both of them. my issue was solved by the system variables the program file one was after the x86 one. thank you @Tianyu Sun-MSFT

John Stewart 0 Reputation points

2024-03-08T15:43:47.27+00:00

@Tianyu Sun-MSFT This Worked. I went a full round of uninstalling and reinstalling SDK's and it turned out the paths were not in my Environment Variables. Thank You - you saved me another 2 hours.

Really Bad Dev 0 Reputation points

2024-03-17T22:26:51.0933333+00:00

Thank you for this fix!

Alexey Krasheninnikov 0 Reputation points

2024-05-03T11:25:50.0766667+00:00

Sufficed to remove the .vs folder, thank you.
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Nick Smith 150 Reputation points

2023-03-28T20:15:23.19+00:00

My solution was following this:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/66128116/1914414

"Before you try a manual install, I'd check if the Path in the system's environment variables is correctly configured for your system.

Given that there's always one shared host that moves forward, it will either pick the x86 or the x64 version on your machine. This issue of not picking the right one might happen if you install multiple/different versions.

Run the where.exe dotnet command to see where the host is looking for the SDK (it's the first entry returned). If you're on a x64 machine, you want to have C:\Program Files\dotnet listed first.

If it's not, edit the Path system's environment variable to have the location you want showing up higher. Doing that should fix the issue of the SDK versions you installed not showing up when you run dotnet --info.

See The latest installed .NET SDK not found for complete instructions."

The order of the SDK paths were incorrect. Reinstalling just threw the path to the bottom of the system environment path variable. Possibly due to Microsoft Studio Code being installed first onto the computer?
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Anders Rudolfsen 10 Reputation points

2023-03-29T09:22:34.24+00:00

Thank you! This solved it for me

Marco Lorenz 10 Reputation points

2023-03-29T10:02:16.74+00:00

Great, Nick! After trying all the other ways above I finally found your simple solution. x86-Path was located before x64

Shevtsov Valery 10 Reputation points

2023-04-07T15:18:59.5166667+00:00

Thank you, Nick!

Woody Goldsack 10 Reputation points

2023-04-12T11:22:56.7733333+00:00

Same here - hope people try this one before the accepted one.

ioan iancu 5 Reputation points

2023-04-20T11:50:38.9366667+00:00

Thanks. This was the answer that solve my problem.

Naveen Bansal 5 Reputation points

2023-05-23T12:45:25.7066667+00:00

Lot Many Thanks, It worked for me also @Nick Smith

John McMurray 5 Reputation points

2023-06-27T11:24:52.4466667+00:00

The best answer - ignore the others and try this first. Sadly I have to do this every time I update VS2022, but at least it's consistent. I suppose.

AbdulQadir Kola-Olukotun 6 Reputation points

2023-08-10T19:29:54.6+00:00

Many thanks Nick. This worked for me.

Timofii Kryvous 0 Reputation points

2024-01-24T11:14:48.65+00:00

Thank you! This solved it for me

Ebenezer 0 Reputation points

2024-02-17T15:50:35.01+00:00

This change solved the same problem I was having. I am on a 64 bits machine, so I moved the 64 bits installation (in C:\Program Files\dotnet) to an upper position than the x86 version. It was also required to restart VS after this change. Good luck for all with the same problem.

Gian Luka Jordan Vega Loza 0 Reputation points

2024-06-22T20:56:32.44+00:00

I owe u a coke my man, thanks for the solution
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Hariharan 30 Reputation points

2023-06-02T13:32:04.0366667+00:00

Please follow the steps in below url,

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67049414/windows-or-visual-studio-2022-cant-find-the-latest-installed-net-sdk-due-to-bi/67049415#67049415
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Kulani Baloyi 0 Reputation points

2023-06-02T15:32:25.76+00:00

I followed everything here to the tee but the problem still persists!!! Extremely frustrating. It shouldn't be this difficult. going on 4 months with this issue now

Hariharan 30 Reputation points

2023-06-02T15:36:12.0366667+00:00

Have tried this way ? it helped me out of this issue. Please try again.

Kulani Baloyi 0 Reputation points

2023-06-02T15:39:46.0366667+00:00

Yes I did. Even double checked it was the system environment variable I was moving up. Didnt work

Hariharan 30 Reputation points

2023-06-02T15:43:01.79+00:00

Please share your image on what it is on environmental variable.

Kulani Baloyi 0 Reputation points

2023-06-02T16:31:00.7366667+00:00

Here is a picture

Julian Lomba Castro 5 Reputation points

2023-06-15T18:58:01.97+00:00

Changing the order didn't work for me, they still appeared at the same order when running where.exe dotnet. What worked for me is going into C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet\ and manually deleting dotnet.exe
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Akshay Chugh 20 Reputation points

2023-12-08T09:25:02.15+00:00

Simply moving the dotnet 64 bit path above the dotnet x86 bit path solved it for me:
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Krishnaswamy Ramesh 0 Reputation points

2024-01-30T22:05:45.7766667+00:00

HI Akshay, I had the problem with I upgraded from VS 17.4 to 17.8. After spending almost half-day, I read your solution of moving the "DotNET" path and this worked like a charm. Thank you very much for your post which solved the issue.
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shruthi sunke 15 Reputation points

2024-05-31T19:40:31.2166667+00:00

My experience has been the same. Instead of getting run, I see attach in VS. I created a project, but it says Microsoft SDK not found, and the projects were showing 0. I tried changing the environment variables but nothing worked, tried installing Microsoft sdk, didn't work. However, I found that one solution worked for me.

Navigate to the file explorer > this PC > windows (C:) > Program files > dotnet, and try to locate the SDk folder here

Now go back, select program files (x86) > dotnet (check if you have a sdk folder here). If you don't find SDK folder here, Copy the complete SDK folder from Program file's dotnet and paste it in Program files (x86)'s dotnet folder.Then launch VS and create a new project. It worked for me. Hope this helps.
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