.NET Core Tool Installer task

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  • Contributors
    • Steve Danielson
    • KathrynEE
    • Alex Homer
    • David Staheli

Azure Pipelines

Use this task in a build or release pipeline to acquire a specific version of .NET Core from the internet or the tools cache and add it to the PATH. Use this task to change the version of .NET Core used in subsequent tasks.

YAML snippet

# .NET Core SDK Installer
# Acquires a specific version of the .NET Core SDK from the internet or the local cache and adds it to the PATH. Use this task to change the version of .NET Core used in subsequent tasks.
- task: DotNetCoreInstaller@0
  inputs:
    #packageType: 'sdk' # Options: runtime, sdk
    #version: '1.0.4'

Arguments

ArgumentDescription
Package to install(Required) Please select whether to install only runtime or full SDK.
Version(Required) Specify exact version of .NET Core SDK or runtime to install.

Examples:
1. To install 1.0.4 SDK, use 1.0.4
2. To install 1.1.2 runtime, use 1.1.2
2. To install 2.0 preview 2 runtime, use 2.0.0-preview2-25407-01

For getting more details about exact version, refer here
Control options

Open source

This task is open source on GitHub. Feedback and contributions are welcome.