Cannot load or run lots of my projects in my solution after installing .NET 7

Edit + General Resolution (from @nagilson):

This is now documented as a known issue for .NET 7 and a resolution is provided here.

Describe the bug

I just installed the last update of visual studio. Then, this happened, I cannot open my projects. C:\Users\PC2\source\repos\AktifPOS\AktifBarkod.AktifPOS.Data\AktifBarkod.AktifPOS.Data.csproj : error : SDK Resolver Failure: “The SDK resolver “Microsoft.DotNet.MSBuildSdkResolver” failed while attempting to resolve the SDK “Microsoft.NET.Sdk”. Exception: “Microsoft.NET.Sdk.WorkloadManifestReader.WorkloadManifestCompositionException: Workload definition ‘wasm-tools’ in manifest ‘microsoft.net.workload.mono.toolchain’ [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk-manifests\7.0.100\microsoft.net.workload.mono.toolchain\WorkloadManifest.json] conflicts with manifest ‘microsoft.net.workload.mono.toolchain.net7’ [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk-manifests\7.0.100\microsoft.net.workload.mono.toolchain.net7\WorkloadManifest.json] at Microsoft.NET.Sdk.WorkloadManifestReader.WorkloadResolver.ComposeWorkloadManifests() at Microsoft.NET.Sdk.WorkloadManifestReader.WorkloadResolver.Create(IWorkloadManifestProvider manifestProvider, String dotnetRootPath, String sdkVersion, String userProfileDir) at Microsoft.NET.Sdk.WorkloadMSBuildSdkResolver.CachingWorkloadResolver.Resolve(String sdkReferenceName, String dotnetRootPath, String sdkVersion, String userProfileDir) at Microsoft.DotNet.MSBuildSdkResolver.DotNetMSBuildSdkResolver.Resolve(SdkReference sdkReference, SdkResolverContext context, SdkResultFactory factory) at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.SdkResolution.SdkResolverService.TryResolveSdkUsingSpecifiedResolvers(IList`1 resolvers, Int32 submissionId, SdkReference sdk, LoggingContext loggingContext, ElementLocation sdkReferenceLocation, String solutionPath, String projectPath, Boolean interactive, Boolean isRunningInVisualStudio, SdkResult& sdkResult)”” C:\Users\PC2\source\repos\AktifPOS\AktifBarkod.AktifPOS.Data\AktifBarkod.AktifPOS.Data.csproj

To Reproduce

Exceptions (if any)

Further technical details

• PS C:\Users\PC2> dotnet --info .NET SDK: Version: 7.0.100 Commit: e12b7af219

Runtime Environment: OS Name: Windows OS Version: 10.0.22621 OS Platform: Windows RID: win10-x64 Base Path: C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\7.0.100\

Host: Version: 7.0.0 Architecture: x64 Commit: d099f075e4

.NET SDKs installed: 3.1.424 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] 5.0.301 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] 5.0.414 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] 6.0.100-rc.1.21463.6 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] 6.0.200 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] 7.0.100-rc.2.22477.23 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] 7.0.100 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]

.NET runtimes installed: Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 3.1.16 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 3.1.21 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 3.1.30 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 3.1.31 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 5.0.7 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 5.0.10 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 5.0.17 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.0-rc.1.21452.15 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.1 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.2 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.10 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.11 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 7.0.0-rc.2.22476.2 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 7.0.0 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 3.1.16 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 3.1.21 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 3.1.23 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 3.1.30 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 3.1.31 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 5.0.7 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 5.0.17 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.0-rc.1.21451.13 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.1 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.2 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.3 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.10 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.11 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 7.0.0-rc.2.22472.3 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 7.0.0 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 3.1.16 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App] Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 3.1.23 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App] Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 3.1.30 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App] Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 3.1.31 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App] Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 5.0.7 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App] Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 5.0.17 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App] Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 6.0.0-rc.1.21451.3 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App] Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 6.0.2 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App] Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 6.0.3 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App] Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 6.0.10 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App] Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 6.0.11 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App] Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 7.0.0-rc.2.22472.13 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App] Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 7.0.0 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App]

Other architectures found: arm64 [C:\Program Files\dotnet] registered at [HKLM\SOFTWARE\dotnet\Setup\InstalledVersions\arm64\InstallLocation] x86 [C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet] registered at [HKLM\SOFTWARE\dotnet\Setup\InstalledVersions\x86\InstallLocation]

Environment variables: Not set

global.json file: Not found

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• VS 2019, VS 2022, VS 2022 Preview

[nagilson]

Sorry you’re dealing with this; it sucks to get an update and then suddenly have your things break.

The official guidance we have for you atm is to uninstall any preview SDKs, like @xt0rted mentioned. Some workload files in some of the preview SDKs will conflict with the RTM / official .NET 7 SDK release. @pascallapradebrite4’s suggestion to delete the microsoft.net.workload.mono.toolchain is also valid and we have been telling people internally to do the same.

As for why, I believe In the middle of preview development some workload content got renamed, with .net7.0 being appended to the end. The reason this happened (multi targeting) is convoluted to say the least and someone else from the team could probably explain it better. We’ve been having discussions about how to prevent the same thing happening when folks upgrade to .NET 8. We are also considering dotnet workload clean which could fix this for you. Thanks, and please let us know of any other feedback or questions here!

[xt0rted]

Just realized there was still a preview version of the sdk installed. I assumed this would be cleaned up when updating since I never manually installed this, but I guess it wasn’t. After updating I did restart like it suggested so it’s not due to a cleanup task not running yet.

I manually uninstalled 7.0.100-preview.6.22352.1 and that removes microsoft.net.workload.emscripten and microsoft.net.workload.mono.toolchain from C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk-manifests\7.0.100 which fixed the issue for me.