Dots

the 🙂 friendly .NET SDK manager

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npx skills add nor0x/Dots

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Dots - the friendly .NET SDK manager

Dots is a .NET SDK manager that allows you to install, uninstall, and switch between .NET SDKs with ease. It is a cross-platform tool that works on Windows, macOS and Linux. It is written in C# and uses .NET with Avalonia as the UI framework.

Features

Search for SDKs
Install SDKs
Uninstall SDKs
Check Release Notes
Show Metadata
...and more!

Download

Grab the latest build from the releases page.

| Platform | Installer | Portable | | --- | --- | --- | | Windows (x64 / x86 / arm64) | nor0x.Dots-win-<arch>-Setup.exe | nor0x.Dots-win-<arch>-Portable.zip | | macOS (Apple Silicon / Intel) | – | nor0x.Dots-osx-<arch>-Portable.zip | | Linux (x64 / arm64) | nor0x.Dots-linux-<arch>.AppImage | nor0x.Dots-linux-<arch>-Portable.tar.gz |

The .nupkg and releases.*.json assets are the update feed - you don't need to download those.

On Linux, chmod +x the AppImage and run it. Only the AppImage updates itself - the tarball is a plain unpack-and-run build. Dots installs SDKs into ~/.dotnet, so no root password is ever needed; SDKs that came from your distribution's package manager are listed but have to be removed with that package manager.

Dots keeps itself up to date from version 2.3.0 onwards - it checks GitHub once a day and offers a one-click update in the header bar. You can also check manually from the About window.

If you are still running a pre-2.3.0 portable Dots.exe, download once from the link above. Older builds have no updater and cannot migrate themselves.

Building

Make sure to have .NET 10.0 and Avalonia installed. Then, clone the repository and run dotnet build in the src directory. You can also use Visual Studio, Rider or Visual Studio Code to build the project. Also make sure to check out the release.yml workflow file for more information on how to build the project.