Ultimate dotnet cli Cheat Sheet for developers

Hey command line fellas, are you a cmd person rather than 10 Clicks using GUI, then this is for you. The below list also helps me to work on large scale applications using just vscode.

dotnet new

• dotnet new sln - Solution File
• dotnet new console - Console Application
• dotnet new classlib - Class library
• dotnet new mvc - ASP.NET Core Web App
• dotnet new xunit - XUnit test project
• dotnet new l - Obtain complete list of available templates

dotnet sln

• dotnet sln list - List all projects in a solution file
• dotnet sln mySolution.sln add myProject/­myProject.c­sproj - Add a C# project to a solution
• dotnet sln mySolution.sln remove myProject/­myProject.c­sproj - Add a C# project to a solution
• dotnet sln todo.sln add **/*.cs­proj - Add multiple C# projects

dotnet sln

• dotnet run - Run the project in the current directory
• dotnet run --project ./proj­ect­s/helloWorld/helloWorld.c­sproj - Run the specified project
• dotnet myapp.dll - Run a framew­ork­-de­pendent app named myapp.dll

dotnet clean

• dotnet clean - Clean the output of a project
• dotnet clean --conf­igu­ration Release - Clean a project built using the Release config­uration

dotnet publish

• dotnet publish - Publish the project in the current directory
• dotnet publish ~/proj­ect­s/myApp/myApp.c­sproj - Publish the applic­ation using the specified project file

dotnet pack

• dotnet pack - Build the project and create NuGet packages
• dotnet pack --no-build --output nupkgs - Pack the project but skip the build
• dotnet pack /p:Pac­kag­eVe­rsi­on=­3.0.0 - Set the package version while pack