Will not start / .NET Core not detected [2.1 nightly]

[kekukui]

[wokhan]

Hi @kekukui, thank you for your feedback. That's a weird issue, indeed... Anyway nightlies have been disabled (temporarily), I was playing around with them but wasn't able to test the output yesterday (sorry about that). Will come back soon!

[wokhan]

Nightly has been republished, using .Net Core 3.1.2 this time (maybe it was the reason why it wasn't working for you?). Feel free to tell if not! Thanks

[kekukui]

The issue persists... but I found something else in Event Viewer - Event ID 1023:

Description: A .NET Core application failed.
Application: WFN.exe
Path: C:\Windows Firewall Notifier\WFN.exe

Message: A fatal error occurred. The required library hostfxr.dll could not be found. If this is a self-contained application, that library should exist in [C:\Windows Firewall Notifier]. If this is a framework-dependent application, install the runtime in the global location [C:\Program Files\dotnet] or use the DOTNET_ROOT environment variable to specify the runtime location or register the runtime location in [HKLM\SOFTWARE\dotnet\Setup\InstalledVersions\x64\InstallLocation].

The .NET Core runtime can be found at:

• https://aka.ms/dotnet-core-applaunch?missing_runtime=true&arch=x64&rid=win7-x64

[hoasis2]

* https://aka.ms/dotnet-core-applaunch?missing_runtime=true&arch=x64&rid=win7-x64

Uninstall ASP.NET Core Runtime 3.1.2 first and install Desktop Runtime 3.1.2 x64 instead.

[wokhan]

Thank you for investigating! We can also publish a self-contained version if you're interested. At least it would confirm it works and doesn't come from some other system-related weirdness!

[wokhan]

Standalone versions are available for x64 and x86 systems (still as nightlies of course). Feel free to give it another try ;-) Thanks