dotnet command line goodness from senor hanselman.


I love to keep up with all things Scott Hanselman ... he's really the golden god of tech.

I love to keep up with all things Scott Hanselman, he's really a golden god of the tech.


I've been learning the new dotnet core stuff lately brushing up on my skills and came across his command line tutorial which is a great into into how you use the dotnet command line.


I'm going to shorten it up for my purposes as I'd like to reference back to it as I keep my studies up. Here's the list of command and what they mean:


make a directory and move to the new folder
  md testexample & cd testexample
create a solution file
dotnet new sln
create a class library, the -n is the name & the -o is the location
dotnet new classlib -n mylibrary -o mylibrary
create a xunit text project
dotnet new xunit -n mytests -o mytests
add the class library to the solution file
dotnet sln add mylibrary\mylibrary.csproj
add the xunit test project to the solution file
dotnet sln add mytests\mytests.csproj
add the xunit test project to the solution file
dotnet sln add mytests\mytests.csproj
move to the mytest project and add reference to class library
cd mytests
dotnet add reference ..\mylibrary\mylibrary.csproj
move up one level and restore the project which pulls down the packages it needs
cd ..
dotnet restore
move to the mytests folder and run the test. –> Scott says, Of course, I'm testing nothing yet but pretend there's a test in the tests.cs and something it's testing (that's why I added a reference) in the library.cs, OK?
cd mytests & dotnet test
add a watcher to your tests so when you save code, your tests will run automagically. open up your /mytests.csproj file and add this xml snippet
<ItemGroup>
 <DotNetCliToolReference Include="Microsoft.DotNet.Watcher.Tools" Version="1.0.0" />
</ItemGroup>
go back up and restore again as you want to add the watcher dependencies and now you can test
cd ..
dotnet restore
add this code to your UnitTest1.cs file and hit save, you will see your tests run. one test should pass and one should fail
[Fact]
public void Test1()
{
	Assert.Equal(4, Add(2,2));
}

[Fact]
public void Test2()
{
	Assert.Equal(7, Add(4,2));
}

int Add(int x, int y) {
	return x + y;
}
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