Where does Rider install .NET

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I've installed .NET through JetBrains Rider. It appears as installed:

And my applications can be built under .NET8.0 and ran under .NET8.0 within Rider.

I located the .exe (that was built whilst I was using Rider) in bin/Debug/net8.0/name_of_my_app.exe and wanted to run it with the terminal. So I opened a terminal and did name_of_my_app.exe; it said "You must install .NET to run this application.". I therefore looked for any dotnet.exe I could find but the only two I could find were not .NET8.0:

  7.0.10 at [C:\Program Files\JetBrains\JetBrains Rider 2023.3.3\lib\ReSharperHost\windows-x64\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]

So my question is: where the heck is my .NET8.0 dotnet.exe so that I can add it to my environment variable PATH and so that I don't have to launch an IDE to run my application.

I'm using Windows 11 and JetBrains Rider 2023.3.3.

It's not a secret that JetBrains has its own forks of many .NET open source components, from MSBuild to Xamarin bits, and install them with Rider if you don't have the Microsoft ones installed in advance. That works in many cases but whenever you try to follow the Microsoft guides you see the gaps. Like the other comments indicated, do install Microsoft bits. — Lex Li
– Lex Li, Commented Feb 27, 2024 at 18:52

Guru Stron · Accepted Answer · 2024-02-27 14:18:13Z

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I have never tried to install Rider before installing .NET, but you can check the Rider settings File -> Settings -> Build, Execution, Deployment -> Toolset and Build (Rider docs), it should contain info about toolset used. For example:

But I would recommend to just install it manually - download an appropriate version from here, install and then if needed change Rider settings.

edited Feb 27, 2024 at 14:18

answered Feb 27, 2024 at 14:11

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