[BUG] csdevkit requests download of .NET runtime

[soma-kurisu]

Describe the Issue

csdevkit initiates download of the wrong .NET runtime even though the right one is in place (and accessible via path).

start vscode (insiders) from current working directory in terminal (bash) whereas directory contains a valid c# project (scaffold blazor project with dotnet new). the csproj explicitly targets net8, but csdevkit requests download for net7 runtime.

my setup:

~$ dotnet --list-sdks
8.0.101 [/usr/lib/dotnet/sdk]

~$ cat /etc/os-release 
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 23.10"

watch the terminal output displaying the midway captured download process of the wrong target runtime:

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Expected Behavior

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[timheuer]

Hi @soma-kurisu Based on your description this is all correct. This is actually downloading the .NET 7 runtime which is needed for the extension to operate. While you have the .NET 8 SDK installed, which also includes the .NET 8 runtime, it does not contain the .NET7 version of the runtime required by the extension to run (we will be updating soon). So this is by-design to get the required dependency to enable the extension to run...we do not roll-forward to new runtimes. It does not affect the SDK you are using and targeting on builds, etc. for .NET 8.

I hope this helps explain a bit.