Scaffolding Applications with .Net CLI

Basics

• dotnet restore : pulls in the dependencies needed by the application
• dotnet run : compiles and run the application
• dotnet build : compiles the application
• dotnet publish : packages up the files for reuse
• dotnet publish -c Release -r win10-x64  [win10-x64 is called RID, run time identifier]
• dotnet publish -c Release -r ubuntu-x64
• list of RIDs could be found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/rid-catalog

Scaffolding

• dotnet new console -o ConsoleTest
• dotnet run (to run the application)
• dotnet build --force 
• dotnet build --no-restore
• to add reference to the below classlib
• dotnet add reference “..\StringModifier.csproj”
• dotnet new classlib -o StringModifier
• dotnet build
• dotnet new mstest -o libraryTester
• add a reference to the abpove StringBuilder library
• dotnet add reference “..\StringModifier.csproj”
• create UnitTest.cs , reference the above and then test
• dotnet build
• dotnet test
• if [TestCategory(“SomeThing”)] applied to the tests then these could be run as 
• dotnet test --filter TestCategory=SomeThing
• dotnet new mvc -o mvctest
• dotnet run
• will give you a port to run the app like 
• http://localhost:5000
• dotnet build
• authentication
• dotnet new mvc -o mvcauth individual
• dotnet new webapi -o apidemo
• can add authentication just like above
• dotnet run
• this will give you the port
• http://localhost:5000
• dotnet new angular -o ngdemo
• install node js and then run npm
• npm install
• dotnet run
• will give the port number
• http://localhost:5000
• Adding the EntityFramework Core 
• dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design 
• dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools
• dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer
• Following will be installing CLI tools
• >dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools.DotNet
• Open up the .csproj file and add reference (VS Code IDE) to it if missing
• and finally restore by issuing the following command
• >dotnet restore 
• EF Migrations has an issue with SDK 3.0
•  https://github.com/aspnet/EntityFrameworkCore/issues/15448
• >dotnet tool install -g dotnet-ef --version 3.0.0-*
• and then add migrations as 
• >dotnet-ef migrations add Initial -s "OneDishParty.csproj"
• and to update database
• >dotnet ef database update
• Other functions can that could be done via Scaffolding, check online for documentation
• Razor views
• Install nuget package "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Tools", a good tool to have
• ReactJs
• xUnit test project
• Empty ASP.Net Core Apps
• Nuget packages
• MVC with no views