Why I can not find the debugger option of ".NET 5+ and .NET Core."

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Why I can not find the debugger option of ".NET 5+ and .NET Core."

Liping Lin 0

I am following the instructions below in a .cs file & trying to launch the debugger. However I can not find the option for .NET 5+ and .NET Core. Please help.

Open the Run menu.
On the Run menu, select Add Configuration.
To choose the debugger option for your console app, select .NET 5+ and .NET Core.

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Answer 1

Viorel 122.6K

The instructions are probably for Visual Studio Code, but you are using Visual Studio, where you can press <F10> to start debugging, or select a command from DEBUG menu.

Liping Lin 0 Reputation points

2023-10-17T12:54:05.22+00:00

Yes I am using VS Code, sorry for not being clear. Thanks for the shortcuts. However, I still can not find the debugger option for .NET 5+ and .NET Core via the normal routes. Thanks for helping out.

~Liping

Answer 2

Tianyu Sun-MSFT 34,436 Microsoft External Staff

Hi @Liping Lin ,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.

Please first confirm if you are using Visual Studio(VS) or Visual Studio Code(VS Code).

The instructions you are following should be for VS Code.

If you are using VS Code, and you didn’t find the .NET 5+ and .NET Core option, then please keep VS Code open and try again. Click Run, select Add Configuration and check if this time, the .NET 5+ and .NET Core option appears.

If you are using VS, please check Viorel’s answer.

Best Regards,

Tianyu

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Liping Lin 0 Reputation points

2023-10-17T12:46:07.25+00:00

Hi Tianyu:

Thanks for your prompt answer. Yes, I am using VS Code (sorry for not being clear the first time). I tried again to locate the .NET 5+ and .NET Core option under Run \ Add Configuration, but still can not locate it. I can only see four options: Blazor WebAssembly Debug, Node.js, Web App (Chrome), Web App (Edge).

I tried another way via "Run and Debug" view button from the left side bar, clicked the link for "create a launch .json file, but still only see three options: Node.js, Web App (Chrome), Web App (Edge).

Finally I used View \ Commend Palette \ .Net Generate Assets for Building and Debug. This time I luckily go a response. I can see .vscode being created with {} launch.json and {} tasks.json below it. After that I can launch the debugger.

I am still very puzzled why this happens. Is my .NET environment corrupted somehow? Will reloading .NET SDK help?

Thanks a bunch,

~Liping
Tianyu Sun-MSFT 34,436 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2023-10-18T06:15:14.34+00:00
Hi @Liping Lin ,

I’m thinking that perhaps the C# extension didn’t finish detecting and configuring the project, so the suggested option didn’t appear.

I believe you have installed the C# extension, but did you see below warning error? If you click Yes, the launch.json and the tasks.json files should be created automatically.

I recommend trying following steps to check further:

Open VS Code, click File > Open Folder… > select and open an empty folder.

Click Yes, I trust the authors option.

Click View > Terminal > run dotnet new console --framework net6.0 --use-program-main command.

Click Run > Add Configuration… > if the .NET 5+ and .NET Core option doesn’t appear, wait for the bin folder to be listed in the explorer > try to click Run > Add Configuration again
Liping Lin 0 Reputation points

2023-10-18T23:40:57.1966667+00:00

Hi Tianyu:

Thanks for the detailed explanation. Yes I have C# extension installed. As a matter of fact, below is all the extensions I have installed. I used to have a deprecated extension (PrintCode) installed as well, recently I migrated to Print. No I did not see the warning message about "Required Assets to build and debug ..."

I followed your instruction about open an empty folder and successfully build a console. The bin folder as appears as well (see below screenshots).

However when I go Run > Add Configuration, I still did not see the .NET 5+ and .NET Core option (see below screenshot).

When I go View > Commend Palette > .Net Generate Assets for build and debug, then the .json files appears (see below screenshot).

Hope this makes the matter clearer.

万分感谢！

Liping

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