Godot .Net not working out of the box

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Hello,
First of all I’m new to Godot so I apologize if I’m asking a stupid question.
I have installed Godot.Net and having /Net 8 installed already, my understanding is that it should work out of the box, but seems not to be the case.
Following the Godot tutorial, seems like I should have a Build button for my c# scripts, which doesnt exist. Also from project settings I can’t find any .Net related tab. From the plugins installed the list is also empty, even tho I can see a GodotSharp folder under my Godot installation folder.
When I try to run the game (with one script created) I always get an error "E 0:00:01:940 can_instantiate: Cannot instantiate C# script because the associated class could not be found. Script: ‘res://Scenes/Player.cs’. Make sure the script exists and contains a class definition with a name that matches the filename of the script exactly (it’s case-sensitive).
<C++ Error> Method/function failed. Returning: false
<C++ Source> modules/mono/csharp_script.cpp:2340 @ can_instantiate()
"
Which seems to be is caused by some issue with the .Net setup.
Any ideas? What did I miss?

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You need to go to Tools, and you’ll see an option to create the C# project. Once you did that, build your project for the first time, then everything should work.

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Thanks! Ye there’s an option to “Create C# solution” and that fixed my error and I can run the project.
Yet I still don’t see any plugins or .Net tab in project settings, is that expected? Im using Godot 4.4.1

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Are you using the Mono version of Godot? The normal version does not support C#

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I think yes, I downloaded then “Godot Engine -.NET” version, still I don’t see any .NET reference in the Project settings or plugins.

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What reference are you expecting to see? If you add a script to a node, are you able to switch between GDScript and C# to pick the language? If so, you’re good to go.