Asp Net Core 2.1 not listed in Visual Studio 2017 target framework

Question

I've installed the new AspNet Core 2.1 SDK - which is now official - but it's still not listed in Visual Studio 2017 target framework, oin both existing projects and new projects:

As suggested in similar topics I've tried with:

• Installing both x64 and x32 versions of the SDK
• Installing the runtime separately
• Manually adding the installation path of the SDK to the environment variable PATH
• Manually updating an existing project (not worked because it wasn't able to find the 2.1 SDK)
• Restarting the PC
• Switching language between my native language (Italian) and English

But it's still not listed.

Reading VS infos, I got that Visual Studio version is 15.7.2 (latest) and NET framework version is 4.3.03056.

Executing dotnet --info from Powershell, i get this:

Does anyone know how to solve that?

Answer 1

Naming is totally confusing. You need to install the 2.1.300-rc1 SDK to get .Net Core 2.1.

C:\>dotnet --info
.NET Core SDK (gemäß "global.json"):
 Version:   2.1.300-rc1-008673
 Commit:    f5e3ddbe73

Laufzeitumgebung:
 OS Name:     Windows
 OS Version:  10.0.16299
 OS Platform: Windows
 RID:         win10-x64
 Base Path:   C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\2.1.300-rc1-008673\

Host (useful for support):
  Version: 2.1.0-rc1
  Commit:  eb9bc92051

.NET Core SDKs installed:
  2.1.300-rc1-008673 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]

.NET Core runtimes installed:
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 2.1.0-rc1 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]

To install additional .NET Core runtimes or SDKs:
  https://aka.ms/dotnet-download