An alternative for using Visual Studio, developers can use the dotnet cli commands to execution any development task. Below are the most common commands that should be used. i will include the Microsoft document link if you need further information.
dotnet new
dotnet new <template name>
Use this command for creating new dotnet projects. The default project type is a CLI console, but you can specify the project type you need. These are list of some applicable template name
- console
- classlib
- xunit
- mstest
Example
dotnet new console -n ConsoleTemplateTest
The command above will create a new console app named ConsoleTemplateTest under the current directory.
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From this point, you can actually open your project quickly through Visual Studio code by using the command
code .at the directory of your project
dotnet build
dotnet build
Build your .net application
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dotnet run
dotnet run
Run your application. Note that dotnet run also execute the dotnet build command.
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dotnet publish
dotnet publish
Compile and create a publish version of your application
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