I'm fairly new to C# an dotnet and I'm struggling a bit with the environment. I'm working on Windows 10 Professional.

I have Visual Studio Community 2019 installed with Development .NET Desktop ticked. I then installed successfully both .NET 5.0 SDK and runtime. When I go to a terminal and type dotnet -v, I get 5.0.401.

However when I create a Console App (.NET Framework) project, I get the choice between .NET Framework 4, 4.5, 4.5.1,4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2 and 4.7.2! I don't see my .NET 5 framework! How can this be?

If I chose ASP.NET Core Web App, I do get the choice between .NET Core 3.1 (Long-term support) and .NET 5.0 (Current).

There's obviously something I don't understand. Is there a difference between the .NET version for Console/Windows app and for Web App? Am I doing something wrong in the installation or configuration?

CodePudding user response：

When are you are trying to create a console application you can choose between Console Application (.NET) and Console Application (.NET Framework)

For example:

dotnet new console -n "MyConsoleProject"

will create a .net 5 console application which you can open with visual studio

.NET Framework and .NET Core (or just .NET nowadays) are different. .NET Framework 5 does not exist, there is a nice table here with all the versions of the .NET platform

.NET is a continuation of .NET Core (a cross-platform library which ended with .NET Core 3.1) .NET Framework is completely separate and only targets the windows platform

CodePudding user response：

As you man know, there is .NET Framework, and there is .NET (Previously called .NET Core). So make sure you don't confuse between .NET Framework and .NET Currently in Visual Studio, whatever project type you find while creating a project is by default .NET unless it clearly specify .NET Framework. In your case, when you see Console Application, it means .NET. If you want the .NET Framework, you need to select Console App (.NET Framework)