C#•11mo ago

Stupid question about Visual Studio

Hello everyone, I feel like I'm losing my mind with Microsoft Visual Studio. My college wants me to rename the .cs file in the solution explorer but I don't see anything like presented on the screenshot with instructions (picture in light mode). Official microsoft guide has solution with project (1 out of 1), and c# program tab with Dependencies and Program.cs in it, but I have empty solution. Any good videos on how to configure this? Spent 2 hours trying to configure Visual Studio and so far having only trouble.

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Omnissiah•11mo ago

you could paste solution file here

GymGoerOP•11mo ago

There is no solution file

Omnissiah•11mo ago

you have to have at least a csproj

GymGoerOP•11mo ago

There are in fact no files at all, it doesn't let me do anything, I have Console.WriteLine written there, but it doesn't let me run or debug, just "Attach..."

GymGoerOP•11mo ago

Angius•11mo ago

Is it just a loose .cs file? Or do you have a proper project with a .csproj and all set up?

GymGoerOP•11mo ago

No, I made a project Is it in "views"?

Angius•11mo ago

It's on your disk

GymGoerOP•11mo ago

Angius•11mo ago

Aight, that seems fine And did you open the project, the solution, or the folder? Just to make sure, close VS and open the solution by double-clicking the .sln file

GymGoerOP•11mo ago

Did that, everything seems same, so I guess it was solution opened Still cant run anything tho

Angius•11mo ago

Huh Try opening it by double-clicking on the csproj? Maybe the solution file is busted

GymGoerOP•11mo ago

Angius•11mo ago

Ah Now we're getting somewhere Open the csproj in any text editor (Notepad, Notepad++, etc) and paste the contents here

GymGoerOP•11mo ago

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk"> <PropertyGroup> <OutputType>Exe</OutputType> <TargetFramework>net8.0</TargetFramework> <ImplicitUsings>enable</ImplicitUsings> <Nullable>enable</Nullable> </PropertyGroup> </Project>

Angius•11mo ago

Aight Open Powershell or CMD and execute dotnet --info command, paste the output here

GymGoerOP•11mo ago

Host: Version: 8.0.1 Architecture: x86 Commit: bf5e279d92 RID: win-x86 .NET SDKs installed: No SDKs were found. .NET runtimes installed: Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 8.0.1 [C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 5.0.17 [C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.26 [C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 8.0.1 [C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 5.0.17 [C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App] Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 6.0.26 [C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App] Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 8.0.1 [C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App] Other architectures found: x64 [C:\Program Files\dotnet] registered at [HKLM\SOFTWARE\dotnet\Setup\InstalledVersions\x64\InstallLocation] Environment variables: Not set global.json file: Not found Learn more: https://aka.ms/dotnet/info Download .NET: https://aka.ms/dotnet/download

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Angius•11mo ago

Seems you have no .NET SDK installed, just the runtime

GymGoerOP•11mo ago

Is it supposed to be installed separately from Visual Studio?

Angius•11mo ago

It should be installed with VS, yeah Perhaps you're missing a workload? Open the VS installer and check that you have it It should be something like "programming classic applications for .NET platform"

Angius•11mo ago

In the installer, click on Modify button

GymGoerOP•11mo ago

Angius•11mo ago

Huh, so it is there What's the VS version?

GymGoerOP•11mo ago

2022

Angius•11mo ago

And this?

GymGoerOP•11mo ago

.4 but yeah

Angius•11mo ago

Yeah that's good Aight, let's try to install the SDK separately You can download it and run the installer, or use the Winget package manager and winget install dotnet-sdk-8

GymGoerOP•11mo ago

Alright, getting installed Is it somehow related to azure?

Angius•11mo ago

Not at all I mean, maybe MS is storing the installer or something on Azure, they probably are But nothing directly tied to it

GymGoerOP•11mo ago

Typical microsoft Alright, SDK's installed

Angius•11mo ago

Cool Close the cmd/pwsh, reopen it, dotnet --info again Or even just dotnet --list-sdks

GymGoerOP•11mo ago

No SDKs found

Angius•11mo ago

Well damn Okay, it could be an issue with env variables then

Omnissiah•11mo ago

do you need to be admin to install it? probably not but just checking

GymGoerOP•11mo ago

Angius•11mo ago

Ah So it's most probably is an issue with the PATH variable Open the environmental variables editor in control panel Typing edit environmental variables in the start menu should get you directly there

GymGoerOP•11mo ago

This?

Angius•11mo ago

Yep Click that Enviromnent Variables button

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MODiX•11mo ago

* Open powershell in a terminal in admin mode as in the following video: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/569261465463160900/1157744344183341156/20230930-1822-10.7436061.mp4 * copy/paste the following script * it will tell you if it detects invalid Path setup * Press Enter to confirm

$OldSysPath=[System.Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable('PATH', [System.EnvironmentVariableTarget]::Machine); `
$Hasx86=($OldSysPath.Split(';') | ? { $_.StartsWith('C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet')}).Count -gt 0; `
if ($Hasx86) {
  Write-Host "**********************************************************************"; `
  Write-Host "If you're seing this message your SYS PATH is improperly set" -ForegroundColor Yellow; `
  $NewSystemPath=$OldSysPath.Replace('C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet', 'C:\Program Files\dotnet'); `
  Write-Host "**********************************************************************"; `
  Write-Host "Your Old PATH was:" -ForegroundColor Green; `
  Write-Host "$($OldSysPath)"; `
  Write-Host "**********************************************************************"; `
  Write-Host "Your New PATH will be:"  -ForegroundColor Green; `
  Write-Host "$($NewSystemPath)"; `
  Write-Host "Press enter to continue (Ctrl+C to ABORT)" -ForegroundColor Red -NoNewLine; Read-Host; `
  Write-Host "**********************************************************************"; `
  [System.Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('PATH', $NewSystemPath, [System.EnvironmentVariableTarget]::Machine) `
}

$OldSysPath=[System.Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable('PATH', [System.EnvironmentVariableTarget]::Machine); `
$Hasx86=($OldSysPath.Split(';') | ? { $_.StartsWith('C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet')}).Count -gt 0; `
if ($Hasx86) {
  Write-Host "**********************************************************************"; `
  Write-Host "If you're seing this message your SYS PATH is improperly set" -ForegroundColor Yellow; `
  $NewSystemPath=$OldSysPath.Replace('C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet', 'C:\Program Files\dotnet'); `
  Write-Host "**********************************************************************"; `
  Write-Host "Your Old PATH was:" -ForegroundColor Green; `
  Write-Host "$($OldSysPath)"; `
  Write-Host "**********************************************************************"; `
  Write-Host "Your New PATH will be:"  -ForegroundColor Green; `
  Write-Host "$($NewSystemPath)"; `
  Write-Host "Press enter to continue (Ctrl+C to ABORT)" -ForegroundColor Red -NoNewLine; Read-Host; `
  Write-Host "**********************************************************************"; `
  [System.Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('PATH', $NewSystemPath, [System.EnvironmentVariableTarget]::Machine) `
}

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Angius•11mo ago

Or use pwsh, sure lol

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GymGoerOP•11mo ago

Alr, so run the script, now sdk's should be in place?

Angius•11mo ago

Yep

GymGoerOP•11mo ago

yyeeaaahhh, sdk 8 installed

Angius•11mo ago

Nice

GymGoerOP•11mo ago

very based and now I have dependencies and all that stuff from youtube tutorials Thank you very much guys, big help, I'd probably bash my head on the wall for whole day without you

Angius•11mo ago

As a side note, I wonder if putting it somewhere online and changing the bot message to use iex would be less intimidating lol It's an all too common issue for... some reason

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GymGoerOP•11mo ago

Microsoft magic

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Angius•11mo ago

Instead of the wall of code it'd be

iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://dotnet.org/fix-dotnet.ps1'))

iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://dotnet.org/fix-dotnet.ps1'))

or w/e Yeah

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Angius•11mo ago

Ah, nice, I copied from Chocolatey lol I think

iex (iwr 'https://the-url').Content

iex (iwr 'https://the-url').Content

might also work But all that's just bikeshedding

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Angius•11mo ago

mean, it's already possible, might as well make it more ergonomic lol

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Angius•11mo ago

I wonder if there's an issue I could upvote...

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