How to fix MSB4236The SDK 'Microsoft.NET.Sdk' specified could not be found.

Chris 0 Reputation points
2024-09-27T04:52:34.4766667+00:00

Could not resolve SDK "Microsoft.NET.Sdk". Exactly one of the probing messages below indicates why we could not resolve the SDK. Investigate and resolve that message to correctly specify the SDK.

The NuGetSdkResolver did not resolve this SDK because there was no version specified in the project or global.json.

MSB4276: The default SDK resolver failed to resolve SDK "Microsoft.NET.Sdk" because directory "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Sdks\Microsoft.NET.Sdk\Sdk" did not exist.

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  1. Tianyu Sun-MSFT 30,541 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2024-09-27T06:42:22.6333333+00:00

    Hello @Chris,

    Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.

    Please search "Edit the system environment variables" in Windows Search box, click to open it. Click Environment Variables… > in System variables, find Path, select it > click Edit. Find C:\Program Files\dotnet\, on the right, click Move Up to upward it(make sure that it lists higher then C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet\). Click Ok, reboot your machine, open VS and test again. Or, try to delete the C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet\ path.

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    If this doesn’t work, kindly try following:

    1. Manually download and install .NET 8.0 from here: Download .NET 8.0 (SDK 8.0.402|Windows|x64).
    2. Reinstall ".NET desktop development" workload => open VS Installer > Modify > Workloads > uncheck “.NET desktop development” workload > Modify > check it again > Modify.
    3. Open CMD, run dotnet --info, check the information about the installed .NET. Such as the information about the installation path and the global.json file.
    4. Try to repair(VS Installer > More > Repair) and reset VS(run devenv /ResetSettings in "Developer Command Prompt for VS 2022").

    Please also check this similar thread => The SDK Microsoft.NET.Sdk specified could not be found. In Visual Studio Community 2022 version 17.5 .

    Feel free to let us know the results.

    Best Regards,

    Tianyu

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