By default, Visual Studio doesn’t enable preview feature selection in Visual Studio 2019. Say you have .Net 5.0 installed on your machine and you are creating a new Console Application. After creating the application, you will notice that, although .Net 5.0 is installed, the application still picks up the .Net Core 3.1 as a default framework. In fact, the application didn’t ask for framework selection too.

So, how can we select the framework while creating an application itself? For doing this, we need to enable Preview Features in Visual Studio by going to the Options menu as shown below,