dotnet / dotnet/vscode-dotnet-runtime
bogus error message
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Description
### Describe the bug.
I renamed a workspace file & one of the projects in that file is .NET 8, since renaming the workspace, when opening that workspace I get an error that .NET 9 could not be download...
1. The message is irrelevant, the project does not use .NET 9
2. The error is wrong, it needs .NET 8 & has .NET 8, so there's nothing to download!
3. The correct fix is to uninstall this extension & run .NET that's installed with VS, but VSCode would force me to uninstall the C# extensions as well, incorrectly claiming that it can't run .NET without this extension even though this extension's only purpose is to download & install missing .NET versions
Even though it's neither free nor open source, I need to buy Sublime Text... it will be worth it not having to deal with the incompatibility between Electron & Windows (32GB RAM*, nothing else but a browser running, & I have to restart VSCode multiple times per day to keep it from getting laggy)... never mind this kind of nonsense... I need to switch from VSCode to VS to do serious development & debugging anyway because Code is too barebones to be useful for anything other than quick searches & reviewing code
\* that's on the home PC... work PC is 64GB RAM with Teams & Outlook also running, same lagginess that endemic to Electron-based apps
### Please attach log file(s) here if you have any.
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### Reproduction Steps
Open .NET 8 project on a PC without .NET 9
### Expected Behavior
project opens without error
### Exceptions & Errors (if any)
download error for .NET 9 even though .NET 9 will not be loaded
### .NET Install Tool Version
2.3.3
### Your operating system? Please provide more detail, such as the version and or distro above.
Windows
### VS Code Version
1.99.3
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