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The project is configured to use .NET Core SDK version 1.0.0

Problem

If you open or create a .NET Core project and Visual Studio cannot find the corresponding .NET Core SDK, you'll get a dialog box similar to the following:


The project is configured to use .NET Core SDK version 1.0.0-preview2-003131 which is not installed or cannot be found under

and even “C:\Program Files\dotnet\bin” shows all the necessary files.
                                                                     Or
When you try to build .NET CoreApp in Visual Studio and you  receive the below error message.
"GETSDKTOOLINGINFO (0,0): Error : The project is configured to use .NET Core SDK version 1.0.0-preview2-003131 which is not installed or cannot be found under the path C:\Program Files\dotnet. These components are required to build and run this project. Download the version of .NET Core SDK specified in global.json or update the SDK version in global.json to the version that is installed."
Then  below Steps will help to find solution to your problem.

Solutions
Step 1: Go to Programs and Features, find "Microsoft Dotnet CLI for Windows (1.0.0.XXXX)" then uninstall. This is most common cause of issue sometime alone this fix works. If nothing found then you are good to go to next step.
Step 2 : Instal latest Nuget Manager Extension from this location.

Step 3: Reinstalled Tooling
·         You should uninstall previous dotnet sdks before using RC2. Go to control panel > programs and features. You should have the following two packages installed (only! nothing else named "Microsoft .NET Core ...").if you found previous versions then remove old version. Then repair correct version.


Step 4: Do dnvm uninstall on all version of runtime
·         Open “Package Manager Console”  by going  following path in screen shot


·         Type dnvm uninstall


Step 5:  Delete all old .xprojs files
You can all delete the .xproj files from your solution directory and after deleting open the project.json file  and press “ctrl +s“  keys to save the projects.json file this will generate a fresh .xproj file   

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