The SDK itself is fully backwards compatible. Regardless of whether the runtime itself is LTS, barring workarounds for bugs there should be no need to pin SDKs.

• dotnet command and it said that SDK 6 was needed

Can you remember what you executed?

From: Greg Keogh <gfkeogh@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2022 8:37 AM
To: David Kean <David.Kean@microsoft.com>
Cc: ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com>; Nick Randolph <nick@builttoroam.com>; Greg Low <greg@sqldownunder.com>
Subject: Re: Visual Studio 17.4.0 side effects

@Greg Keogh How did the uninstall of the 6.0 SDK break your project? Are you pinning versions via global.json?

I just accepted the update and let it run to completion smoothly. A short time later I ran a dotnet command and it said that SDK 6 was needed. I saw in Control Panel that only SDK 7 was installed, so I reinstalled 6 and I was back to normal. Strangely, a colleague did the same thing and didn't see that happen.

No pinning anywhere. I'll revisit the pros and cons.

Greg