cli

Visual Studio 2017 has been released and the features are great for Windows developers. However along with it comes .NET Core 1.0 tooling and large improvements to the command line experience for macOS and Linux users developing ASP.NET Core applications. One of the prevalent features shown off in VS 2017 is the Docker support and capabilities to push to Azure App Service. Using the Azure CLI 2.0, Docker and .NET CLI these same capabilities can be accomplished without friction and with just as much success and satisfaction. dotnet new The new command now is driven by a whole new template system. A number of new templates, including webapi, are available with the ability to install and create...

2016 is officially the year of the monkey, but I am calling it the year of the CLI (Command Line Interface). One of the recent talks I gave at DevIntersection was "Modern Web Toolchain". Mentioning CLI Tools and "Modern" does raise and eyebrow or two. It covers npm, bower, grunt (http://gruntjs.com), gulp etc. But more interestingly, about 50% of the talk is about command line tools; and more than just Yeoman. There are a number of either completely new or new versions of frameworks that are in the works for a version 1.0 release in 2016 and all of which are shipping a CLI tool. Angular 2.0 .NET Core NativeScript Aurelia Just to mention a few,...