Dotnet Core command-line operations

.Net core is Microsoft's wonderfully refurbished new open source-cross platform successor for the now 20 year old .NET Framework. There are a lot of improvements such as the core of the framework not being as monolithic as its ancestor but more relies on NuGet for expanding. Being cross platform it works with docker for Linux and thus making it a natural choice over .NET Framework in the new age of Big Cloud computing.

But some of the greatest features is it's brand new and very consistent CLI tools. For command line and Vim geeks like myself this is very liberating. Even though you could run msbuild with .NET framework, this is completely different.

This article will show a brief example of a typical setup of a solution and different projects.
The order of which you do these are not important.

Create solution file

The solution file is actually optional in dotnet core, but it's an advantage if you plan to open the solution with full Visual Studio. In addition it gives you the option to build the entire solution in one command. Microsoft docs on dotnet sln

mkdir mysolutionfolder
cd mysolutionfolder
dotnet new sln

Create console app

mkdir consoleapp
cd consoleapp
dotnet new console

Add console app to solution

cd ..
dotnet sln add consoleapp

Run console App

cd console
dotnet run

Create web app

mkdir web
cd web
dotnet new webapp

Create class library

mkdir lib
cd lib
dotnet new classlib

Add more projects to solution

cd ..
dotnet sln add web
dotnet sln add lib

Add references in the solution

cd web
dotnet add reference ../classlib

Add nuget package

cd web
dotnet add package Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.AzureAppServices

List projects in solution

dotnet sln list

Build and run

Works both on solution and project level

dotnet build
dotnet run