Some templates that Sayed has authored.
This repo contains a few templates that can help you create your own tempaltes for dotnet new
as well as a template to create a new dotnet
cli tool.
For info on how to create your own dotnet templates go to https://aka.ms/netcore-templates.
To install this template pack, run the following command in a terminal.
dotnet new --install sayedha.templates
To create the template.json
file you can use the templatejson
template. Create a new template.json
file with the command below after installing the template pack.
dotnet new templatejson
This will create a template.json
file in the current directory.
When creating templates, you'll need to pack them into a NuGet package to distribute them. You can learn more about this at
Packing a template into a NuGet package (nupkg file).
To create the csproj
file that can be used to pack your template pack execute the command below.
dotnet new templatepackcsproj
This will create a file named template.csproj
in the current directory. You'll need to customize the content of the file to suit your needs.
In most cases template authors don't need to tweak settings for the IDE, but in the cases that it's needed, you can do that with an ide.host.json
file. To create
that file execute the command below.
dotnet new idehostjson
This will create an ide.host.json
file in the current directory.
This is a project template for a dotnet new tool that uses System.CommandLine. This template is setup as a tool that has a single sub-command. You can easily add more commands as needed.
To create a project from this template, execute the command below.
dotnet new clitool
This template has some options, to explore what's available, invoke the command specific help with.
dotnet new clitool -h