.NET could not fine any installed .NET Core SDKs after installing and restarting computer

[Pale Gray]

Recently, I've been wanting to learn C# more or even migrate to its language as it has mostly the same syntax as Java, so I tried yesterday to do so.

The problem is, I downloaded the installer (Runtime and SDK), and even restarted my computer after installation, but whenever I try to run the command dotnet new console, it outputs this:

It was not possible to find any installed .NET Core SDKs Did you mean to run .NET Core SDK commands? Install a .NET Core SDK from:      https://aka.ms/dotnet-download

What is the specific problem to this? is it the installer that is breaking this?

Here are problems that may or may not effect this:

Is it because I'm on a Bootcamp drive?
Do I need to install the 32bit installer even though I'm on a 64bit pc?
What is Arm64 vs x64? (I installed the x64 version)
Am I using an outdated visual studio code or terminal? (My VSC is version 1.55.2, checked in about)
Things I have done:

Installed the SDK separately
Copied/Pasted the binaries for the .NET 5.0 SDK
I used dotnet --info and came out with NO SDK
Here is what outputs when I run the command dotnet --info:

Host (useful for support):  Version: 3.1.12  Commit:  0267ad09c6 .NET Core SDKs installed:  No SDKs were found. .NET Core runtimes installed:  Microsoft.NETCore.App 3.1.12 [C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]  Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 3.1.12 [C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App] To install additional .NET Core runtimes or SDKs:  https://aka.ms/dotnet-download
If anyone knows the problem, it would be very helpful! Thanks alot!

~ Pale_Gray

[Stephan van Hulst]

Pale Gray wrote:I downloaded the installer (Runtime and SDK)

You probably should have installed the SDK only.

Copied/Pasted the binaries for the .NET 5.0 SDK

What do you mean by this? To me it seems like this might have made matters worse maybe.

Anyway, uninstall all runtimes and the SDK, and make sure that your PATH environment variable doesn't contain any references to dotnet folders.

After you've removed all traces of dotnet, reinstall the SDK only, and then sign out of your OS user session and then sign back in (or just restart your system).