.NET Core 3.0 not showing in Visual Studio 2019

My recent struggle to see .NET Core 3.0 in VS2019 finally worked out.

Initially, I had to try a few multiple things and found an easy solution ultimately for the issue.

Today in this article, we will cover below aspects,

Issue:

.NET Core 3.0 not showing in Visual Studio 2019

Resolution:

Go to VS2019->Tools->Option ->Environment ->Preview features

As shown above, please make sure to enable the option “Use preview of the .NET Core SDK”. Save your changes and please restart the machine(recommended).

(Above screenshot was captured after the issue resolved )

Please note that currently .NET Core 3.0 is available as a preview version only. The release candidate(RC) and the final version will be available soon.

Finally, you shall see .NET Core 3.0 version available in VS2019 as below,

It’s recommended to use latest version of VS2019 and .NET Core 3.0 SDK. Latest version of both will fix any pending issue and will avoid unnecessary struggle .

References:

• Creating first desktop application using .NET Core 3.0

Did the above steps resolve your issue?

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