❔ ✅ DotNet Templating Bind Project Name
With dotnet, there is a templating tool. It supports symbol replacement. With that you can bind to various properties.
https://github.com/dotnet/templating/wiki/Binding-and-project-context-evaluation#bind-symbols
I would like to get the project name. This would be whatever the developer submitted for their project name.
There is a feature which replaces the project name, using the
sourceName property, but this is a "safe" project name which uses _.
I have tried many bindings I would expect to work but none do.
msbuild:projectname
context:projectname
projectname
targetname
project
name
I also tried creating a derived symbol from the source name but I am unable to find the binding for the source name.
Rider doesn't support custom parameter symbols so I want to avoid that for now since Rider is quite popular among my developer audience.GitHub
Binding and project context evaluation · dotnet/templating Wiki
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it's just name
when you create a new project, you pass that as a parameter
is this what you mean?
I think it worked with just name
What you have as 'name' is the symbol name. Your behavior is using the type
parameter and getting the user to type in the name. Rider doesn't support that functionality, so i'd like to use type bind and get it from a existing property.
dotnet new and visual studio do support parameters, but all the devs i'll work with on these projects are using rider, from what i've gathered. So I'm really just trying to optimize developer experience.yeah like you want that parameter to automatically bind to the project name right?
One option that exists may be to use the .vstemplate, i guess. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/template-parameters?view=vs-2022 but i suspected all those replacement properties exist in this other templating
Project and item template parameters - Visual Studio (Windows)
Learn how to use template parameters to replace values in your template when the template is instantiated.
which I think it does
i might be wrong
The users of that template get an additional field called "name" that gets a parameter though, right?
I can try again, maybe parameter of type "name" gets automatically assigned?
they do, but it also gets autobound if you don't provide it, from the project name
i think
parameters are usually custom fields on the template generation, was my understanding... trying now
!!! you're awesome... i didn't know they also "bind" parameters... that worked :D
nice
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