LINQPad 6 requires .NET Core 3 to run
I've found two other posts related to this in a forum search, but they are not helpful in my case.
I built a fresh Windows 10 20H2 developer machine today and installed LINQPad 5 and 6. I have registered 5 and it's running okay. However launching 6.7.5.0 just gives me the message in the title and quits. I have Visual Studio 2019 installed and all the .NET core dependencies seem to be okay, so I must be missing some trick. I've pasted my info below. Advice would be welcome.
Thanks, Greg
Host (useful for support): Version: 5.0.1 Commit: b02e13abab .NET SDKs installed: 3.1.404 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] 5.0.101 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] .NET runtimes installed: Microsoft.AspNetCore.All 2.1.23 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.All] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 2.1.23 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 3.1.10 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 5.0.1 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 2.1.23 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 3.1.10 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 5.0.1 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 3.1.10 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App] Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 5.0.1 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App]
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6.7.5 is an old version of LINQPad (I think it targets only .NET Core 3.0). The latest LINQPad is 6.11. Did you disable automatic updates?
You can update to the latest version by re-installing LINQPad 6:
https://www.linqpad.net/Download.aspx
LINQPad 6.11 works with .NET Core 3.1 as well as .NET 5.
I think I did disable updates, I usually do, which could explain this. In the morning I'll download a fresh version and try again. Aha! my installer exe is dated 18-Apr-2020, so I should have looked for a later release -- Greg