error MSB4236 The SDK Microsoft.NET.Sdk specified could not be found

Background Recently I was working on a website built before dotnetcore was even a thing. It was targeting an older version of the original .NET Framework.

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SSL error on downlevel windows versions

The other day I was going to test and debug some code on a Windows Server 2012RC machine.

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homebrews cellar version of mono breaks omnisharp

So today, I raised a GitHub issue because after I had opened the result of dotnet new mvc in VSCode the problems window would have approximately 120 issues and the code editor window would be full of red squiggles.

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HTTP Error 500.30 - ANCM In-Process Start Failure

I host an aspnetcore website on a Windows Server 2012 R2 running IIS on Amazon AWS and it’s generally fast and stable.

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Unable to locate package dotnet-sdk-3.1

Every time there is a new release of dotnetcore I need to get it updated on the three environments where I develop and deploy code: macOS, Windows and Linux (Ubuntu).

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