ASP.NET Core with the New MSBuild Based Tooling

By Wes Higbee
The new .NET Core Tools release affords benefits both in the new, lean MSBuild project system and in expanded dotnet CLI functionality. This course, you'll explore the new .NET Core Tools release allowing you to develop your own web applications.
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Level
Beginner
Updated
May 26, 2017
Duration
4h 21m
Table of contents
Course Overview
Course Overview 1m
Creating Web Projects from Templates with dotnet new
Course Overview 1m The Project System Is One of the Biggest Changes 7m Why Switch Back to MSBuild? 2m Installing the SDK 3m dotnet New to See the New MSBuild Project File 2m New Project File Does Not Need Explicit File References 3m New PackageReference in MSBuild Project Files 1m Editing Projects Without VS and Background Package Restore 2m PackageReference Intellisense in Visual Studio 1m MSBuild Multi-targeting with a Single Project File 3m MSBuild PackageReference Is Transitive 3m MSBuild Pro - Composability 3m Digging Into the SDK 5m XML vs. JSON 2m A Cleaner Project File? 2m Enhancements to All Project Types - PackageReference Anywhere 2m Creating a Web API with dotnet New Webapi 3m Creating an MVC Web App with dotnet New MVC 1m Finding and Using Template Parameters 4m Be Careful Where You Create Your Project 1m It Is Easier to Get the Name Right When Creating a Project 2m Key Takeaways 1m
Managing Projects and Solutions with the dotnet CLI
Organization 5m Creating a Project in Nested Folders with dotnet New 1m Creating a .NET Standard Library with dotnet New Classlib 4m Creating a Test Project with dotnet New xUnit 3m Back to Just One VS Test Adapter per Test Framework 3m Creating an Empty Solution File with dotnet New sln 2m Adding Projects to a Solution with dotnet sln Add 5m Listing Projects in a Solution and Removing Projects 1m Clean ProjectReferences 1m Adding Project to ProjectReferences with dotnet Add Reference 3m Listing Project to ProjectReferences with dotnet List 1m Adding NuGet Packages with dotnet Add Package 2m dotnet Add Package Warns You if a Package Is Incompatible 1m Removing NuGet Packages with dotnet Remove 1m Currently Visual Studio Changes Some Files Created with the CLI 2m Key Takeaways and Creating Projects with Visual Studio 2m
Building, Running and Publishing Web Apps with the dotnet CLI
Solutions Are Not Just for Organization 3m An Overview of the dotnet CLI Dev Commands 3m dotnet Restore Creates Files in the obj Temp Directory 3m Files Generated by dotnet Build 2m dotnet Clean Removes Build Output 2m dotnet Run -p 2m Run a Compiled Application with Just dotnet 2m dotnet Publish 5m Exploring the Publish Targets in the SDK 2m dotnet Test 2m Running Tests in Visual Studio 2m Most of the CLI Is a Wrapper Around MSBuild 3m Calling Out to MSBuild Directly 2m AssemblyInfo Is Generated Based on Project Properties 5m Finding the AssemblyInfo MSBuild Targets in the SDK 3m Setting Project Properties in Visual Studio and Property Docs 2m Changing What Files Are Included 2m
Extending the dotnet CLI with DotNetCliToolReference
Introduction 0m It Would Be Nice to Restart Our Web App When We Make Changes 2m Installing a per-project Tool 2m Using dotnet Watch to Restart a Web App When Changed 1m Configuring What to Watch in the Project File 3m Adding a Tool from the CLI 1m Adding Packages with Visual Studio 1m Finding Tools 4m A Few Last Things About Tools 4m
Packaging Libraries for Reuse
From Zero to Package in 30 Seconds 2m The New .NET API Browser 4m Using the Client Library in Our Web App 3m Specifying a Version Suffix with the CLI or csproj 4m A Nuspec File is Generated Behind the Scene 2m Changing Pack Options with Visual Studio 3m Reference Docs for Package Properties 4m Multi-targeting Just Works with Packages 3m Conditional Dependencies per TargetFramework 2m PrivateAssets for Excluding Design Time Dependencies 2m Adding a readme.txt - None Items 4m Adding Files to the Package with Pack 2m Setting the PackagePath 1m Switching a File from None to Content 4m
dotnet new with Custom Templates
Installing Additional dotnet New Templates 2m Creating and Exploring an Angular Spa 2m Uninstalling Templates and Running the 2.0 Tools with Docker 1m Finding Templates and Template Documentation 2m
Using MSBuild Targets to Customize the Build Process and Run Tasks
A Clean Project File Incentivizes Extensibility 4m A Plethora of Tasks 1m Bundling and Minification in Web Apps 5m dotnet Bundle 3m dotnet Bundle Clean 0m Why Not Bundle When Building and Clean Bundles When Cleaning 1m Exec'ing dotnet Bundle When Building and Cleaning 2m Conditional Targets - Only Bundle Release Builds 2m Importing Bundling Targets from NuGet Packages 6m MSBuild is Highly Composable 3m Learning from Dumping the Flattened Pre-processed Project File 2m Extracting Common Properties to Directory.Build.props 3m Sharing Common Properties with Directory.Build.props 2m Looking into How Directory.Build.props Works 2m MSBuild Structured Log Tool and Other Helpful Tools 3m
Migrating Existing ASP.NET Core Apps from project.json
When It Is Time to Migrate from project.json 1m dotnet Migrate from the CLI 4m Migrating with VS 2017 3m Compare project.json to New csproj 7m Reconciling Published Files 3m A Few Last Notes About Migration 2m The End 1m
Description
Course info
Level
Beginner
Updated
May 26, 2017
Duration
4h 21m
Description

At the core of developing ASP.NET core applications is the project system. It brings together all the pieces to compile and execute your applications. In this course, ASP.NET Core with the New MSBuild Based Tooling, you'll learn how to use the new .NET Core Tools release to develop web applications. First, you'll explore the myriad of new benefits, including a modernized, lean MSBuild project file that combines the best of project.json and MSBuild. Next, you'll discover the new templating engine for dotnet new. Additionally, you'll dive into several command line tools to modify solution and project files, making it even easier to develop ASP.NET Core apps on any platform, with any IDE. Finally, you'll cover how the benefits of this new project system are being ported to other .NET project types. By the end of this course, you'll have a foundational knowledge of the new tooling and know how to get the most out of it.

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Wes Higbee
About the author

Wes Higbee is passionate about helping companies achieve remarkable results with technology and software. He’s had extensive experience developing software and working with teams to improve how software is developed to meet business objectives. Wes launched Full City Tech to leverage his expertise to help companies delight customers.

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Course Overview
Hi! My name is Wes Higbee. Welcome to my course, ASP. NET Core with the New MSBuild Based Tooling. The 1. 0 release of the. NET Core tools brings with it a host of new benefits. And in this course, I'm going to walk you through the changes in the context of developing an ASP. NET Core web application to help you get the most out of the new tooling. One of the biggest changes is the migration from project. json to a new lean and mean MSBuild project file that combines the best of project. json and MSBuild. We'll also take a look at the entirely new templating engine behind the dotnet new command. We'll also see how we can manage projects and solutions with the dotnet CLI. We'll look at extending the dotnet CLI with our own tools, how easy it is to create a NuGet package with only a project file. We'll look at how to extend dotnet new with our own custom templates, and we'll also see how we can extend the build process by adding our own MSBuild targets to execute our own tasks. For example, maybe we want to integrate with Webpack or npm. And then we'll wrap up with a look at how we can migrate an existing web application from the project. json format to the new csproj format. Whether you're a veteran of ASP. NET Core development, or you're starting your first project, you'll walk away with everything you need to know to best take advantage of the new tooling. Let's get started.

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