c# – .NET is not recognized - Faz Business

In a .NET C# project, I get many errors like this:

Predefined type ‘System.Object’ is not defined or imported

Primary variables such as int and string are not recognized.

I have tried the following:

Reinstalled Visual Studio 2026 Insider and 2022. This didn’t help
Reinstalled .NET SDKs (10, 8, .NET Standard 2.1). This didn’t help
Checked the environment variables, which seem fine

When I run dotnet --info in the command prompt, all SDKs and runtimes are installed.

When I run an .exe application created by a .NET project, I get the following message:

You must install .NET Desktop runtime to run this application

Application architecture x64, and app host version is 8.0.21.

The result of running dotnet --list-sdks is:

2.1.818 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
8.0.416 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
9.0.308 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
10.0.100 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]

The result of running dotnet --info is:

.NET SDK:
 Version:           10.0.100
 Commit:            b0f34d51fc
 Workload version:  10.0.100-manifests.5fb86115
 MSBuild version:   18.0.2+b0f34d51f

Runtime Environment:
 OS Name:     Windows
 OS Version:  10.0.26200
 OS Platform: Windows
 RID:         win-x64
 Base Path:   C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\10.0.100\

.NET workloads installed:
There are no installed workloads to display.
Configured to use workload sets when installing new manifests.
No workload sets are installed. Run "dotnet workload restore" to install a workload set.

Host:
  Version:      10.0.0
  Architecture: x64
  Commit:       b0f34d51fc

.NET SDKs installed:
  2.1.818 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
  8.0.416 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
  9.0.308 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
  10.0.100 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]

.NET runtimes installed:
  Microsoft.AspNetCore.All 2.1.30 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.All]
  Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 2.1.30 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
  Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 8.0.22 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
  Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 9.0.11 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
  Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 10.0.0 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 2.1.30 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.36 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 8.0.22 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 9.0.11 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 10.0.0 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
  Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 8.0.22 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App]
  Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 9.0.11 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App]
  Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 10.0.0 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App]

Other architectures found:
  x86   [C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet]
    registered at [HKLM\SOFTWARE\dotnet\Setup\InstalledVersions\x86\InstallLocation]

Environment variables:
  Not set

global.json file:
  Not found

Learn more:
  https://aka.ms/dotnet/info

Download .NET:
  https://aka.ms/dotnet/download

Edit: this question is different than similar questions because this problem exists even when I create a new project. It is a system-wide problem. Also it doesn’t run the .NET apps which are already compiled.

Also, none of the solutions provided in similar questions helped.

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