The purpose of this project is to create a dotnet new template and package it for publishing to NuGet.

This project was used to create and publish a template located at https://www.nuget.org/packages/partners_igia_microservice_template/.

For more information on dotnet new templates see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/custom-templates.

For more information on igia see https://igia.github.io.

For more information on packaging the dotnet template for NuGet see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tutorials/create-custom-template.

For more information on .NET Core see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/get-started.

The project is made available under the MIT License.

For instructions on using this template see this README

In order to use any dotnet new template it must first be installed. To install this template run the following command.

dotnet new -i partners_igia_microservice_template

In order to update the template, first uninstall the existing template then run the install command again.

dotnet new -u partners_igia_microservice_template
dotnet new -i partners_igia_microservice_template

While the template can be used out of the box, you can also further customize it for your needs. To create a customized template, use the following instructions:

1. Download or fork this project.
2. Open the project in Visual Studio for Mac.
3. Edit the project as desired.
4. Once completed, create the NuGet package. (This will automatically install the package locally using dotnet cli)
5. Before publishing to NuGet, update the version number in the solution. Note: This version number is automatically shared with the solution, project and NuGet package.
6. Publish the NuGet package. For instructions, see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/create-packages/publish-a-package