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Fixing ‘DNX design time process error in VS 2015’

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Today I thought to create my first demo using Visual Studio 2015 for ASP.NET Core 1.0. So, I opened VS2015 and chose Web Application template under ASP.NET 5 Templates. Visual Studio started creating a project for me. Although my project was created but at the same time some DNX error was thrown as shown below:

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I tried various options including restarting machine, re-installing Visual Studio, etc.
But Alas ! Nothing worked. But on surfing for few hours, I found a solution which worked for me.
You can run any of the below commands:
dnvm update-self OR dnvm upgrade
 
Open Visual Studio 2015 and do dnvm update using command line as:


 

 
Once this command was executed, I didn’t get that error again. Hope reading this blog will save your few minutes of troubleshooting. Enjoy learning.

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