'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

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)

c++sharpvisual-studio-code.net-core-sdk


Solution 1:[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 can use it now.

It worked for me.

Solution 2:[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.

Solution 3:[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!

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Solution 4:[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! enter image description here

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

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

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! enter image description here

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! enter image description here

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.

Solution 5:[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.

Solution 6:[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.

Solution 7:[7]

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

Solution 8:[8]

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

Solution 9:[9]

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.

Solution 10:[10]

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)

Solution 11:[11]

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.

Solution 12:[12]

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)"
  1. Close Visual Studio Code
  2. 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

  1. Run sudo xcodebuild -license accept
  2. Repeat brew install --cask dotnet-sdk

Solution 13:[13]

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

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Solution 14:[14]

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

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