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Tab completion on the command line is like having a superpower for some of the CLI tools we have at our fingertips. With so many commands, paramaters and/or options; it's nice to be able to type a few characters and tap the {Tab} key and get some help. I've gotten spoiled even with directory searching by just hitting tab now in zsh and having the list popup and getting the "pick list" to choose the right one. A long standing issue for the .NET CLI for the command line lovers was this missing feature. Wait no longer, with the 2.0 release you can now enable it with by adding some config to your .bashrc, .zshrc or even Powershell...

See GitHub Issue #795 for the details and discussion. One of the undocumented changes of converting from project.json to csproj, was the <DocumentationFile> no longer automatically copied to the output folder during the build or publish process. There have been multiple solutions, both pre and post publish scripts. However, understanding how MSBUILD works and finding the simplest way is key. Thanks to Eric Erhardt's latest comment here I think that this is the cleanest way. Add the following snippet to the .csproj to enable the copy of the documentation file to the output folder. It supports the F5 options as well as the dotnet build / dotnet publish CLI commands. Another important option tested was the ability to...

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...

Note: At the time of this post, the dotnet cli version being used 1.0.0-rc4-004771 available from GitHub dotnet/cli repo - https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/master/release-notes/rc4-download.md I have been a long time fan of the yeoman generator for ASP.NET Core and still I would argue that it's still the most complete project creation utility for cross platform development. With that said, the dotnet cli has really raised the bar for command line parity development tooling when comparing similar capabilities from other languages or frameworks where CLI is the first tool. Historically, as you know, Visual Studio is the standard for "File->New Project" or anything to do with a .NET solution or...

.NET Core 1.1 RTM was announced yesterday along with Visual Studio for Mac! So of course, I jumped right over to install them both. During the install of the 1.1 version of .NET Core from the downloads page, hit a snag on OSX. If you have seen recent Scott Hanselman talk ASP.NET Core, there is a slide he uses where he references "How do you like your ASP.NET?" I'm somewhere between "medium-rare" and "medium-well", depends on the machine I am using. I had the preview bits installed which had a version of 1.0.0-preview2.1-003155 and now the RC 1.1 is released with version of 1.0.0-preview2-1-003177. When running the command dotnet --info...