.NET 8 SDK – Visual Studio 2022 Compatibility

Today being the second Tuesday of the month marks the occurrence of Patch Tuesday, signifying the release of a new set of updates.

The second preview for .NET 9 is now available in the Preview channel, while Quality updates have been made accessible in the stable channel.

Quite like the SDK, Visual Studio 2022 has also received updates. The latest update includes VS2022 17.10.0 Preview 2.0 and 17.9.3 in the Stable channel.

Note: The stable version 17.9.3 release incorporates .NET MAUI 8.0.7 (SR2) workload update, which was previously available as a NuGet package update.

When considering compatibility, I attempted to install .NET SDK version 8.0.202 on a system that already had VS2022 17.10.0 Preview 2.0 installed. However, the installation was not successful. Refer to the screenshot for details. Upon further investigation, I discovered that this SDK version is not compatible with the preview version of Visual Studio, as indicated on the .NET SDK for Visual Studio page. It is advised to use SDK version 9.0.100-preview.2 when working with the 17.10 preview version of Visual Studio.

Happy coding. Stay connected as we continue to learn and share the experiences from this exciting journey of being a .NET developer.