This repository is the home for the .NET Core Template Engine. It contains the brains for dotnet new and template instantiation in Visual Studio.
When dotnet new is invoked, it will call the Template Engine to create the artifacts on disk.
Template Engine is a library for manipulating streams, including operations to replace values, include/exclude
regions and process if, else if, else and end if style statements.
.NET default templates are located in several repositories.
The templates are located in the following repositories:
| Templates | Repository |
|---|---|
| Common project and item templates | dotnet/sdk |
| ASP.NET and Blazor templates | dotnet/aspnetcore |
| ASP.NET Single Page Application templates | dotnet/spa-templates |
| WPF templates | dotnet/wpf |
| Windows Forms templates | dotnet/winforms |
| Test templates | dotnet/test-templates |
| MAUI templates | dotnet/maui |
Issues for the template content should be opened in the corresponding repository.
We have created a dotnet template samples repo, which shows how you can use the Template Engine to create new templates. The samples are setup to be stand alone for specific examples.
dotnet new CLI is now located in dotnet/sdk repo.
You can create new projects with dotnet new, this section will briefly describe that. For more info take a look at
Announcing .NET Core Tools Updates in VS 2017 RC.
To get started let's find out what options we have by executing dotnet new --help. The result is pasted in the block below.
$ dotnet new mvc --help
MVC ASP.NET Web Application (C#)
Author: Microsoft
Options:
-au|--auth The type of authentication to use
None - No authentication
Individual - Individual authentication
Default: None
-uld|--use-local-db Whether or not to use LocalDB instead of SQLite
bool - Optional
Default: false
-f|--framework
1.0 - Target netcoreapp1.0
1.1 - Target netcoreapp1.1
Default: 1.0Let's create a new project named "MyAwesomeProject" in the "src/MyProject" directory. This project should be an ASP.NET MVC project with Individual Auth. To create that template
execute dotnet new mvc -n MyAwesomeProject -o src/MyProject -au Individual. Let's try that now, the result is below.
$ dotnet new mvc -n MyAwesomeProject -o src/MyProject -au Individual
The template "MVC Application" created successfully.The project was successfully created on disk as expected in src/MyProject. From here, we can run normal dotnet commands like dotnet restore and dotnet build.
We have a pretty good help system built in, including template specific help (for example dotnet new mvc --help). If you're not sure the syntax please try that,
if you have any difficulties please file a new issue.
Now that we've covered the basics of using dotnew new, lets move on to info for template authors and contributors.
You can install additional templates that can be used by dotnet new.
To search for the templates available on NuGet.org, use dotnet new --search.
dotnet new --search web
dotnet new --search azure --type project
dotnet new --search azure --author Microsoft
This repo only contains libraries and packages that are used by dotnet new and Visual Studio to instantiate the template. There is no UI for this libraries.
To build, run and debug dotnet new, see the instuctions in dotnet/sdk repo.
Check out our contributing page to learn how you can build, run and debug.
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