The .NET Core SDK cannot be located. .NET Core debugging will not be enabled. Make sure the .NET Core SDK is installed and is on the path

Question

When I open my vs code program I get this message: The .NET Core SDK cannot be located. .NET Core debugging will not be enabled. Make sure the .NET Core SDK is installed and is on the path. If I installed and even uninstalled the .NET core SDK and reinstalled it, there were several ways to change the external terminal to Power Shell, but no changes. Another problem I have when I click on the terminal is this message: The terminal shell path "; C: \ Program Files \ dotnet" does not exist

If my .NET is on the same path and persists. Please tell me how can I fix my problem?

Visual studio code : version 1.42.1(x64) .NET core SDK : version 3.1.101(x64)

And I've tried these .NET core SDK versions: version 3.0.100(x64) , version 2.2.207(x64)

Answer 1

1. Just simply close your VS Code app. It seems the error is produced because you are installing .NET Core SDK when your VS Code is opened.
2. After closing it, re-install the .NET Core SDK.
3. You must be able to use it now.

It worked for me.

Answer 2

I have the 5.0.103 [/snap/dotnet-sdk/112/sdk] installed (as shown, using snap) on KDE neon (based on Ubuntu 20.04).

In order to inform vs code where to find the .Net sdk, set a symbolic link '/usr/local/bin'(this folder is normally in your path):
sudo ln -s /snap/dotnet-sdk/current/dotnet /usr/local/bin/dotnet

After that, restart Visual Studio Code.

This worked for me.

Answer 3

I'm on a MAC (High Sierra), and closing VSC and reinstalling SDK did not help in my case.

VSC kept saying that SDK was "not installed or not on the path". When I ran dotnet in the Terminal window I received "command not found" message.

I had to manually add /usr/local/share/dotnet to PATH in my ~/.bash_profile.

Correct path is displayed once SDK is installed (see picture below). I appended it to the PATH in my ~/.bash_profile, reopened Terminal, and it worked. You may have to reload VSC too.

Good luck!

Answer 4

DON'T DELETE ANYTHING BEFORE TRYING THIS!

To my fellow developers, I find a great and easy method!

1- Open VS Code and go to settings from the bottom left corner!

2- Type in @ext:ms-dotnettools.csharp to search dotnet tools!

3- Scroll down until you find "Omnisharp: Dotnet Path" and click Edit in settings.json link!

4- Go to the end of the file and right before } symbol type in "omnisharp.dotnetPath": "YOUR_DOTNET_LOCATION" enter your dotnet path. note: don't forget to put a comma(,) before your line!

this will show vs code that you have a dotnet installed on your PC!

5- We are not done yet! Last but not least go back to settings and find Omnisharp: Use Modern Net Check the box and close your VS code, after reopening you will see that your VS Code detects dotnet!

Like this post if it worked out for you!!

One last thing! If your VS code detects it but still no snippets for C# you should check if you've set Omnisharp: Use Global Mono to always, if not then select always to enable it.

Answer 5

In my case it helped just to quit VSCode and re-open it (no need to re-install the .NET Core SDK) and the message you mentioned is gone.

Answer 6

Working on Mac M1. I was facing the same issue when I open the project in VSCode. This is how I resolved

Steps:

1. I quit my VS Code
2. I reinstalled dotnet SDK
3. I restarted my project

Initially, when I installed sdk, my VSCode was open, might be that was causing the issue.

Answer 7

I have the same problem，but my problem was cause by duplicate installation.

My solution as below:

1、open cmd, check the info of dotnet, I found it was a old version of 6.0.3，but I am sure I have installed a newest version of 7.0

input

dotnet --info

here is the output message

Host (useful for support):
  Version: 6.0.3
  Commit:  c24d9a9c91

.NET SDKs installed:
  No SDKs were found.

.NET runtimes installed:
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.3 [C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
  Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 6.0.3 [C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App]

To install additional .NET runtimes or SDKs:
  https://aka.ms/dotnet-download

2、check the path of dotnet,I found there is two different path of dotnet

where dotnet

C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet\dotnet.exe
C:\Program Files\dotnet\dotnet.exe

3、go to the path I found，it’s clear that "C:\Program Files\dotnet" is the correct path of dotnet

C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet

C:\Program Files\dotnet

4、edit environment variable，delete or move down the wrong path

environment variable

5、restart VScode，this error will not display anymore

Answer 8

My issue was I was using .Net version 5 on Apple silicon, when I tried .Net 6 the problem got solved.

Answer 9

You can try using homebrew

1. Install homebrew https://brew.sh

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

2. Close Visual Studio Code
3. Run brew install --cask dotnet-sdk

If you will have error like this

Error: You have not agreed to the Xcode license. Please resolve this by running:
  sudo xcodebuild -license accept

Then

4. Run sudo xcodebuild -license accept
5. Repeat brew install --cask dotnet-sdk

Answer 10

I have reinstalled SDK 6 via snap using https://learn.microsoft.com/ru-ru/dotnet/core/install/linux-snap. Then, I have executed a command:

sudo ln -s /snap/dotnet-sdk/current/dotnet /usr/local/bin/dotnet

from https://github.com/dotnet/core/issues/7627

Answer 11

quit VS code. quit attached program (unity, etc). open originally attached program. Open VS code (assets > open c# project).

Answer 12

For those of you who are on macOS and on M1, and after they closed VS Code and re-installed it, still don't get rid of the error. Try this:

On VS Code, click "Open folder..." and open your user folder. For example my name is Bob and here is the path of my user folder: "Macintosh HD/Users/bob".

Once the user folder is opened, on the left browser panel of VS Code, open those hidden files:

.bash_profile

.zshrc

and at the end of those files, add this:

export PATH="/usr/local/share/dotnet:$PATH"

And save those 2 files.

Basically, it allows apps trying to find .NET SDK to find it in the folder "/usr/local/share/dotnet" which is the default installation folder on macOS Ventura 13.1 (and some previous versions I don't know lol).

To be honest, only one of these two files needs this new line but I'm to lazy to figure out which one.

Restart your Mac and it should work.

Answer 13

In my case the issue was that it wasn't installed in WSL. I'm using WSL2 running Ubuntu. So to solve this I just follow these steps on Ubuntu 22.04:

sudo apt-get update && \
  sudo apt-get install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0

If you use other version or want to use dotnet 7.x, follow this howto by Microsoft

Answer 14

The problem with my side (using Linux and zsh) is that even after installing the .net and exporting the required paths on ~/.zshrc:

export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.dotnet
export DOTNET_ROOT=$HOME/.dotnet

The vscode was not being able to find these exports.

So I added the same in my ~/.bash_profile file and Shazam it worked! Looks like sometimes the vscode can not read the zsh files and only the bash ones, so this can be your case.

Answer 15

it is not the way to solve this problem but you can do it to have your code run you can open a command on that directory C:\Program Files\dotnet then write this

dotnet run   

and your code will automatically run

Answer 16

my solution to this issue is: 1-you must uninstall all of the services belong to Visual Studio(not Vs Code) 2-uninstall VS Code and folder "AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code" 3-download new dotnet core SDK and install vs code I hope it's done for you

Answer 17

I downloaded the Build tools for Visual Studios 2019 and that seemed to fix my issue on VS Code.

So go to this URL: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/

All Downloads -> Tools for Visual Studio 2019 -> Build Tools for Visual Studio 2019

Then of course, download and run, then select "C++ Build tools" and ".NET desktop build tools" and install.

Worked for me, hopefully works for others too.

Answer 18

The same issue happened to me when I installed an extension. The reason was I didn't have .NET Core SDK installed. What I did to get rid of the issue was:

1. Close VS Code
2. Install .NET Core SDK
3. Re-install the extension (in my case)

Answer 19

Start VSCode from your terminal:

code pathToProject

For MacOS, Linux and Windows users alike.

From the Troubleshooting: 'The .NET Core SDK cannot be located.' errors wiki page in OmniSharp's VSCode repo:

If which dotnet produces a PATH, then the .NET SDK was able to successfully modify the PATH, but VS Code isn't picking it up. VS Code attempts to scrape the environment by launching the default shell under the covers. But this process can be fragile. You can attempt to work around this by starting VS Code from your Terminal.

Answer 20

Basically my goal was to get dotnet commands working on terminal on VS code. For that I spent an hour or two trying to find a solution. I came across a command "dotnet new console", and If i can execute it in the terminal of VS code I can get it to work. But it doesn't because it couldn't identify what dotnet was in the first place. The dotnet commands only worked on my base/usual cmd that comes with windows OS. So what I did was open my file in windows explorer that gives the error, open terminal in the same folder the project file is in (basically the folder that just popped up), and ran the script ("dotnet new console") without the quotes or brackets. It worked and I could use dotnet commands in the terminal of VS Code.

I have shown some arrows indicating files that weren't there before I ran the command. These files were added after running dotnet new console

Answer 21

Changing System Environment Variable Path from C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet to C:\Program Files\dotnet fixed the problem for me.

Answer 22

If you are on Mac M1, make sure the package is ARM64. You choose if you want x64 or ARM64 when you download at the page, https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet

This worked for me.

I also added the path to my .bash_profile file

You can find the .bash_profile file in your finder once you allow the showcase of hidden files.

Answer 23

I was having the same issue and tried answers here but they didn't solve the issue.

Finally I solved this by opening the project folder from terminal with code . as dotnet says here

I am using Unity and was opening the project folder by double-clicking the C# file on Unity. That was the issue in my case.

Hope this helps :)

Answer 24

uninstalling and then

sudo snap install dotnet-sdk --classic --channel=7.0

worked for me.

Answer 25

This for future:- hi Jeeva if you install again unity with vscode please read this

First install vscode extension https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-dotnettools.csharp

If you got error like this "The .NET Core SDK cannot be located. .NET Core debugging will not be enabled. Make sure the .NET Core SDK is installed and is on the path" then install https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/thank-you/sdk-6.0.300-windows-x64-installer

If vscode shows "The reference assemblies for .NETFramework,Version=v4.7.1 were not found" on output terminal then install developer pack https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet-framework/net471 then try exit and open vs code if not work then restart

Answer 26

If you absolutely cannot get .NET Core SDK installed so that Omnisharp can find it, try unchecking the checkbox next to "Show Omnisharp Log On Error" under Settings > Extensions > C# Configuration > [] Show Omnisharp Log On Error

Answer 27

• Click on the error that is shown on your VS Code
• Get into Settings of the error
• Download it and you are all set