Talk presented on extending the .NET CLI

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< Extending the .NET CLI: >
<Custom tooling without all the work >
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Jamie Phillips
Web: phillipsj.net
Twitter: phillipsj73

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< Why is it Important? >
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< Did you know it was extensible? >
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< It’s extensible in three ways! >
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< Per project using NuGet packages! >
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< Custom build targets using NuGet >
< packages! >
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< Adding tools to your system path!! >
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< Conventions that need used >
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< Any command line application, >
< not only .NET! >
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< It must be named dotnet-command >
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11. Examples
on
NuGet

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< Building Your Own >
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13. Portable Operating System Interface
• IEEE standard
• Current version is 1003.1-2008
• Lots of conventions and standards
• 14 overall guidelines
• https://tinyurl.com/POSIXCLI

14. POSIX Example
• utility_name -d[-a][-c option_argument][operand...]

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< What’s all the fuss? >
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16. POSIX Options
• Designated by '-'
• Not designated by '/'

17. GNU Coding Standards
• A good idea is to follow these too.
• All programs should support two standard options: ‘--version’ and
‘--help’.
• https://tinyurl.com/GNUCLI

18. POSIX/ GNU Short Name
• -h : gets the help
• -v : gets the version

19. GNU Long Name
• --help : gets the help
• --version : gets the version

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< Let’s have a DEMO! >
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22. Per project example
<ItemGroup>
<DotNetCliToolReference Include="dotnet-codestock"
Version="1.0.0" />
</ItemGroup>

23. System Path Example

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