Inconsistent templates in visual studio and dotnet cli when dotnet_cli_home set to custom location

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Due to security policy, I had to set dotnet_cli_home to non-default location to run some building steps. Things went quite well until not. All my command line usages and batch scripts work, until I tried to create a project using the custom project template via Visual Studio and noticed that old deleted template was shown in "Create a new project" dialog.

I tried several options and none of them works for my case. They are belows:

  1. Remove packages in %userprofile%\.templateengine and corresponding data from packages.json

  2. Delete all files in %appdata%\..\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\17.0_c01b6b15\ComponentModelCache

I recalled the recent changes I made to my environment, dotnet_cli_home is the most promised one. I removed dotnet_cli_home from my environment variables. Bingo!

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