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.

uninstall vs and vsinstaller restart machine download below two vs cpp redist and install first before install visual studio https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x86.exe https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe download the latest version of VisualStudioSetup.exe from https://c2rsetup.officeapps.live.com/c2r/downloadVS.aspx?sku=professional&channel=Release&version=VS2022&source=VSLandingPage&cid=2030:a4e034a4e73f4c1cb41366109a953e4d choose download all and install when installing visual studio after choosing components to install Clear Visual Studio Component Cache Close Visual Studio (ensure devenv.exe is not present in the Task Manager)