Unable to Upgrade VS Project from ASP.NET Core 2.1 to 2.2 [duplicate] - asp.net-core

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The current .NET SDK does not support targeting .NET Core 2.2. (SDK 2.2.202)
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Running VS version 15.9.4, I followed Microsoft's instructions (I think), but I'm still having trouble upgrading an existing 2.1 project to the latest stable (2.2.3).
Here is my dotnet --info
And here is my project file:
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web">
<PropertyGroup>
<TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.2</TargetFramework>
<Configurations>Debug;Release;DEBUG_LOCALAPI</Configurations>
<AspNetCoreHostingModel>InProcess</AspNetCoreHostingModel>
</PropertyGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<Content Remove="appsettings.Development.json" />
<Content Remove="appsettings.json" />
</ItemGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<None Include="appsettings.Development.json" />
<None Include="appsettings.json" />
</ItemGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.App" />
<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Versioning" Version="3.0.0" />
<PackageReference Include="WindowsAzure.Storage" Version="9.3.3" />
</ItemGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<ProjectReference Include="..\PublishingAPICommon\PublishingAPICommon.csproj" />
</ItemGroup>
</Project>
If I try to install 2.2.3 to that project from NuGet manager, this is the error message I get:
Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error NETSDK1045 The current .NET SDK does not support targeting .NET
Core 2.2. Either target .NET Core 2.1 or lower, or use a version of
the .NET SDK that supports .NET Core 2.2. PublishingStorage C:\Program
Files\dotnet\sdk\2.1.502\Sdks\Microsoft.NET.Sdk\targets\Microsoft.NET.TargetFrameworkInference.targets 137
And here is what I see in VS when I try to edit the project properties directly:
Things I have tried:
Re-starting VS
Re-starting my machine
Creating a project-scoped global.json file with 2.2.3 value

Answer 1

From #martin-ullrich on https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetCore.Docs/issues/11844
Go to https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-core/2.2 and
download the installer for the 2.2.105 version. Anything >= 2.2.200
will not work in VS 2017. Both 2.2.105 and 2.2.202 contain the latest
and greatest .NET Core 2.2 version but they differ in the version of
the tools they include and are based on - the 1xx train is MSBuild
15., NuGet 4. etc. and the 2xx train is MSBuild 16., NuGet 5. and so on and Visual Studio only looks for the latest version compatible with
its version of MSBuild - for VS 2017 this is 2.1.502 version which
cannot target .NET Core 2.2. (And to add more confusion, there are now
2.1.6xx versions with VS 2019 tool versions together with the .NET Core 2.1 runtime)
[#]leecow and [#]rowanmiller are working on updating that page
regarding VS, also see dotnet/core#2542 and dotnet/sdk#3076 which are
about the same problem.
My contribution: After installing 2.2.105, I deleted the folder(s) titled '2.2.202' in directory C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet\sdk and/or C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk so that dotnet --info now reads the following: