visual studio c# extensions missing

Question

I've search the web and found questions from 3-9 years ago. My problem is that I can't find anywhere the .NET standard or Windows Console Application or Windows Desktop Application or class Library for C#.

When I had Visual Studio 2015 - it was there by default.

Today I have Visual Studio 2017 and window 10 and I can't get my things together.

Are they canceled? What is the other option?

When I look at my New project library -> Online -> Visual C#

There are many different applications but non of them seems to come from Microsoft.

Meanwhile I've got a .NET Core API Solution template but it has a lot of errors.

Please help

Answer 1

visual studio c# extensions missing

Just like Joe said, you should use Visual Studio installer to install the modules you need. Visual Studio 2017 use the a new way to install Visual Studio! In the newest version, MS have made it easier for you to select and install just the features you need. MS have also reduced the minimum footprint of Visual Studio so that it installs more quickly and with less system impact than ever before.

After the installer is installed, you can use it to customize your installation by selecting the feature sets—or workloads—that you want.

For the .NET core API project, you need install module .NET Core cross-platform development.

Check the document Install Visual Studio 2017 for some more details.

Hope this helps.