.Net 8 runtime download corrupt?

Jos ter Doest 10

Is there an issue with the .Net 8 runtime download? I keep getting a message that i can't run this on my pc. The only option is to use winget to install.

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Jiachen Li-MSFT 32,216 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2024-10-10T06:41:33.09+00:00

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Tako Zandink 5 Reputation points

2024-10-04T11:36:53.1166667+00:00

Can confirm the same issue. All .NET downloads result in a 0kb download file, that cannot be executed. Installing through Winget does work. These are the commands for .net 8:

winget install Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.8

winget install Microsoft.DotNet.AspNetCore.8
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Nicolas Morissette 5 Reputation points

2024-10-04T14:41:45.2766667+00:00

We're having the same issue in ADO using the UseDotNet task.
Use dotnet sdk 6.0.424
Use dotnet sdk 8.0.303

It's a hit or miss on every run

K. Fuchs 0 Reputation points

2024-10-13T18:16:29.3433333+00:00

Can confirm as well.

Almost all downloads of either the .NET Desktop Runtime 8.0.10 x64 or SDK 8.0.403

as well as older 8.0.x versions fail and result in 0kb files, on Edge as well as Firefox.

Every now and then i get a filesize of up to 256kb but nowhere near the complete file.

And the MS storepage to install winget doesn't even open...

Jiachen Li-MSFT 32,216 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2024-10-14T07:56:13.8366667+00:00

What versions of Windows are you guys having this issue with?

Nicolas Morissette 5 Reputation points

2024-10-15T15:06:23.9533333+00:00

Hey
On my side it seems to be back stable now but this was happening with pretty much all .NetCore SDK versions. Sometimes it was downloading completely, Sometimes downloading partially and sometimes downloading 0bytes file. It really felt like a weird storage issue on your side. Maybe some servers where not doing good or a cache was broken somewhere.

For the past few days it seems to be ok on our side. I was running this pipeline on our self hosted Azure DevOps Server agents and I was also running it on ADO Microsoft hosted agents. I attached a copy of the run running on Microsoft hoster agents.
You can see in the logs that it was downloading the SDK but the file wasn't the right size

Nicolas Morissette 5 Reputation points

2024-10-15T15:13:34.73+00:00

Hey Jiachen Li-MSFT

On our side it seems to be back stable now. It was happening with pretty much any version of .NetCore SDK for us. Sometimes it downloaded fully, sometimes partially (failed) and sometimes we were getting 0 bytes file (failed). It really feels like something was not doing well in the Microsoft storage but it now seems okay.

I was running a test pipeline in Azure DevOps Server on self-hosted agents and I was running the same pipeline in Azure DevOps Service on Microsoft hosted agents. Both pipelines failed from time to time. I attached an example of the one running on Microsoft Hosted agent in Azure DevOps Services as the logs provided more information. You can see it tried a few times unsuccessfully to download the SDK with the behavior mentioned by K. Fuchs. Please ignore the warning about the space left. I Highlighted what matters for this case.

Jiachen Li-MSFT 32,216 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2024-10-16T07:17:27.51+00:00

Hi @Nicolas Morissette ,

The problem is common in downloads of various versions, tt is recommended that you post the problem on github for further assistance.

https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues

Thanks for your cooperation.
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Jiachen Li-MSFT 32,216 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2024-10-04T09:37:39.0566667+00:00

Hi @Jos ter Doest ,

What is your Windows version?

Make sure you're downloading the correct version for your system architecture. The screenshot shows you're downloading the x64 version, but if your system is running a 32-bit version of Windows, you'll need the x86 installer instead.

Best Regards.

Jiachen Li

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