.net - How to make dotnet core select a lower version?

Question

I have several versions of dotnet core in my system. But .Net Core project selects the latest version for building the project. Is there anything I can do to make sure that the project selects the correct version? I am using Visual Studio for development.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66058856/how-to-make-dotnet-core-select-a-lower-version

Answer 1

You can create global files in the root folders where you want specific versions. You can run the following in the command line in the selected folder:

dotnet new global

This creates a new file called "global.json". You can open this file and edit the version number. You can list all available SDK versions using dotnet --list-sdks

Here he complete documentation on how you can set versions. You may want to consider using "latestFeature" or "latestPatch" (detailed in the documentation). These help as the hardcoded .net core SDK versions might change over time.