Error NETSDK1045

September 28, 2022 - 1 mins read time - 209 words - garrardkitchen

error, visual studio, vs, vs2019, .net, sdk

Error NETSDK1045 The current .NET SDK does not support targeting .NET 6.0

A colleague had Visual Studio shout this (see 👇) at him when he loaded up a FunctionsApp project. He received this error twice as the second project was the unit tests for the FunctionsApp.

Error NETSDK1045 The current .NET SDK does not support targeting .NET 6.0. Either target .NET 5.0 or lower, or use a version of the .NET SDK that supports .NET 6.0. TestNasLinuxFuncAppWebTests
C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\5.0.409\Sdks\Microsoft.NET.Sdk\targets\Microsoft.NET.TargetFrameworkInference.targets 141

I interpretted this as the newer targets were not supported by the existing SDK. Yeah, genius right 😁.

However, even after installing .NET 6.0 and the Azure Functions Core Tools using it didn’t fix the issue:

winget install -e --id Microsoft.DotNet.SDK.6
winget install -e --id Microsoft.AzureFunctionsCoreTools

So, like most at this stage, I consulted with a trusted colleauge (Google) and found this in the MS Documentation - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/sdk-errors/netsdk1045. He did reboot his vm, yet the error remained.

I did also find a SO suggesting upgrading to VS2022 would fix this issue.

I couldn’t find the reciprocal recommendation in MS documentation but he did upgrade to vs2022 regardless. This did the trick. 🥳

Conclusion

If you get Error NETSDK1045 in Visual Studio then upgrade to the latest verison of VisualStudio.