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Question

After format my computer I reinstalled Vs 2017 V 15.6.3 and install ASP.Net Core SDK from Microsoft 2.1.4

But when I create new asp core application VS failed with error

"Project file is incomplete. Expected imports are missing"

Please, can anyone help?

Answer 1

I started to get this error when unistalled all my old .NET Core SDKs and installed the latest one, 2.1.5 at the time of posting. I have tried all the solutions here without any luck so decided to check what is the current SDK version after all the cleaup I did because I thought this is causing the problem, and I was right - started a command prompt and wrote dotnet --version and got the message "Did you mean to run dotnet SDK commands? Please install dotnet SDK from:". Strange, the SDK is installed but the system doesn't see it. Then I looked in my environment variables and the PATH variable had the x86 for dotnet path before the regular Program Files (the x64 one) path. So I moved the x64 before the x86 and voila, everthing is back to normal.

Hope I helped someone.

Answer 2

I get the same issue, and I run Visual with Administrator privilege again. This helps me to open project nomarlly.

Answer 3

in my case, I went to the folder C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk delete the preview sdk folder, then on the command line run:

dotnet sdk 2.1.200

to set the correct sdk version for asp.net core. this fixed the problem.

Answer 4

Deleting the bin and obj folders for the project fixed this for me.

Answer 5

Resolved

1. Even after uninstalling certain version from control panel, there would the files and folders with deleted version found in C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk

2. Please go and delete unwanted version folder

3. Try reloading the project

This worked for me

Answer 6

In my case, I had two versions of Visual Studio installed (15.7 and 15.6). 15.7 didn't have the web workloads installed, though .net core 2.1 RC1 was already installed. I installed the asp.net workload into VS2017, and then repaired my .net core install for good measure. Definitely something in this process swapped my c:\program files(x86)\dotnet and c"\program files\dotnet in this path and Visual Studio (15.7) wouldn't open my web project.

I simply edited the System Environment variables, moved the x86 folder down one and voila - reopened Visual Studio and it now loaded my project.