How to automatically install the .NET SDK version specified in global.json when running restore.cmd?

[Eleve2023]

Hello,

I am contributing to ASP.NET Core and noticed that when I run the restore.cmd script, it does not seem to automatically install the .NET SDK version specified in the global.json file. Is this the expected behavior? Is there a way to automatically install the .NET SDK version specified in the global.json file when running the restore.cmd script?

Thank you in advance for your help.

[martincostello]

As far as I'm aware, that's what it's supposed to do when you run it.

The SDK version changes often and I've not had any issues with contributions by doing the following on Windows in a PowerShell terminal:

.\restore.cmd
. .\activate.ps1

Can you share a specific commit you're trying to build the repo from and what output you get from restore.cmd when you run it that shows the version isn't being installed?

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[Eleve2023]

Thank you, @martincostello, for your response. Your explanation is correct and helped me solve my issue.

I would also like to suggest adding a note in the Build from Source documentation to mention that the activate.ps1 script should be run using the command . .\activate.ps1 (with a space between the two dots) instead of .\activate.ps1.

Again, thank you for your help.

[martincostello]

This is documented in step 4 of the Visual Studio Code or other editor on Windows, Linux, Mac section of that document.

How exactly were you trying to build the sources? On the CLI itself with build.cmd, with Visual Studio, with Visual Studio Code, or something else?

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[Eleve2023]

Hi @martincostello . Thank you for your response. I did not follow the steps in the “Visual Studio Code or another editor on Windows, Linux, Mac” section of the documentation. I am using Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022 (64-bit) - Preview on Windows 11. Here are the steps I followed:

1. I launched PowerShell in the root of the repository and executed the ./restore.cmd command.

2. In the aspnetcore\eng and aspnetcore\src\Components directories, I executed build.cmd.

3. In PowerShell, in the root of the repository, I executed the commands . .\activate.ps1 then cd src\Components ./startvs.cmd to start Visual Studio.

I did not encounter any errors or warnings in the error list, but there is a warning ⚠ under “Dependencies - Assemblys” for all projects. However, everything seems to be working correctly.