Install VS templates for multiple frameworks

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Go into a folder, let's say C:\MyTest Run: dotnet new globaljson This will create a global.json file with your current version of the dotnet CLI in it, for example:

{
  "sdk": {
    "version": "6.0.100-rc.2.21505.57"
  }
}

So in this case, when you do dotnet new -i Umbraco. Templates::* the VS templates will be installed for version 6-RC2 of the framework. Visual Studio 2022 runs dotnet v6 by default but VS2019 runs dotnet 5 by default.

In order to figure out which versions we have available on our machine, you can run dotnet --list-sdks, the example output could be:

3.1.414 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
5.0.402 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
6.0.100-rc.2.21505.57 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]`

So we can update the global.json file, which overrides the framework version used in that directory and below:

{
  "sdk": {
    "version": "5.0.402"
  }
}

Now when we run dotnet new -i Umbraco. Templates::*, it will install the dotnet templates in dotnet framework 5, which should make them available in VS2019.