sdk: Unable to include project reference to CLI tool
Steps to reproduce
Create two .NET Core projects
- Class library representing the tool (
DemoTool) – AddProgram.cswithMain(string[] args) => Console.WriteLine("Hello World");
{
"title": "Demo Tool",
"version": "0.1.0-*",
"buildOptions": {
"emitEntryPoint": true,
"outputName": "dotnet-demo-tool"
},
"dependencies": {
},
"frameworks": {
"netcoreapp1.0": {
"imports": "portable-net452+win81",
"dependencies": {
"Microsoft.NETCore.App": {
"version": "1.0.0-rc2-3002702",
"type": "platform"
}
}
}
}
}
- Console application representing the app (
DemoApp) referencing the tool
Configure a project reference to the tool
{
"title": "Demo Tool",
"version": "0.1.0-*",
"buildOptions": {
"emitEntryPoint": true
},
"tools": {
"DemoTool": {
"version": "0.1.0-*"
}
}
"frameworks": {
"netcoreapp1.0": {
"imports": "portable-net452+win81",
"dependencies": {
"Microsoft.NETCore.App": {
"version": "1.0.0-rc2-3002702",
"type": "platform"
}
}
}
}
}
Execute dotnet restore
Expected behavior
dotnet restore executes successfully.
dotnet demo-tool executes successfully and “Hello World” is written to the console output.
Actual behavior
dotnet restore fails:
Unable to resolve ‘DemoTool (>= 0.1.0)’ for ‘.NETCoreApp,Version=v1.0’.
Environment data
dotnet --info output:
.NET Command Line Tools (1.0.0-preview1-002702)
Product Information:
Version: 1.0.0-preview1-002702
Commit Sha: 6cde21225e
Runtime Environment:
OS Name: Windows
OS Version: 10.0.10586
OS Platform: Windows
RID: win10-x64
About this issue
- Original URL
- State: closed
- Created 8 years ago
- Reactions: 2
- Comments: 18 (5 by maintainers)
@Antaris @GrantErickson this is not supported for RC2. You have to package your tool as a Nuget package. However, you don’t have to have a feed, you can restore it using the
-fswitch todotnet restore.We are thinking about whether to add this feature going forward.
@BrainCrumbz in order not to litter this issue with unrelated comments, I’ve moved that discussion to an issue on my repo: https://github.com/liamdawson/DotNet.DevFeed/issues/4
Risking a plug here, but you might find this helpful when trying to write/debug tools (or anything that benefits from a local auto-refreshing nuget feed). Feedback/contributions welcome.
https://github.com/liamdawson/DotNet.DevFeed/
I am suprised there isn’t currently a debug story for tools in dotnet-cli preview1. How does the ASP.NET and .NET teams develop their tools? Like, the user-secrets, and iis tooling? Do you
dotnet pack & dotnet restorefor every code change?Thanks for the update. Good to know I can stop looking. I would definitely vote for a better debug story going forward.