Refers to the dotnet tool cli commands used with a .NET Core Global Tool
Questions tagged [dotnet-tool]
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Should I check the dotnet-tools .config directory into source control?
Recently I've noticed a .config directory being created by Visual Studio with a dotnet-tools.json file in. Should this be .gitignored or checked into source control?

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How to build .sqlproj projects using "dotnet" tool?
Unable to build .Net .sqlproj using "dotnet" command line tool. Here's the error:
dotnet\sdk\3.1.300\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v11.0\SSDT\Microsoft.Data.Tools.Schema.SqlTasks.targets" was not found
I have installed SSDT tool but it's not available at…

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How to run AWS Lambda dotnet on localstack
The DotNet3.1 AWS Lambda
I have created an AWS Lambda solution with C# DotNet3.1 using the Amazon template
dotnet new serverless.AspNetCoreWebAPI -n MyDotNet.Lambda.Service
this creates a lambda function whose handler is…

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Github Action- How to restart the session?
I have a Github Action that creates a dotnet tool, and trying to use it.
$ dotnet pack MyTool.csproj --configuration Release
$ dotnet tool install --global --add-source . MyTool
Since you just installed the .NET Core SDK, you will need to logout or…

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How to exclude certain file types from dotnet watch run?
Looking to get the following setup going:
I'm working on a Blazor app, and with the official css isolation bundler. I'm using Less though, and installed a Less transformer which creates the required css on build.
However, running my app via dotnet…

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Cannot install playwright: Couldn't find project using Playwright. Ensure a project or a solution exists in
I'm trying to install playwright on my deployment target machine in order to run UI tests.
# Install the CLI once.
dotnet tool install --global Microsoft.Playwright.CLI
playwright install
however when using the playwright CLI including playwright…

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Is it possible to use wild card versions for dotnet global/local tools?
We use the normal dotnet-tools.json for setting up our dotnet local tools for our project but was wondering if there is a way to use wild card versions for the version numbers like you can do within csprojs with package references?

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Run dotnet tool restore to make the dotnet-ef command available
I'm having a quite strange situation with Visual Studio and EF migrations in Publish Profile. Given:
Visual Studio 2019 v16.4
.NET Core project. Targets .NET Core 3.1
EF 3.1
Azure publish profile
I've created migrations in local project and when…

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Docker - Uninstall Dotnet Global Tool installed through Dockerfile
I am installing a dotnet tool globally through Dockerfile using the following:
RUN dotnet tool install --global Amazon.Lambda.Tools --version 3.3.0
ENV PATH="$PATH:/root/.dotnet/tools"
I have another tool (aws sam) that tries to…

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Cannot install anything using dotnet tool install command
I'm trying to install the dotnet-ef tool via the dotnet-cli.
The command that I enter: dotnet tool install --global dotnet-ef
It gives me the following error:
…

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dotnet tool update not getting latest version in nuget
I'm playing with dotnet-tool and nuget; I noticed that if I push a refresh nameOfPackage.nupkg to the nuget repo and then run dotnet tool update -g nameOfPackage it does not take the new package version.
I have to force a cache clear to get it to…

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How to update all of my dotnet global tool by one command
I install too many dotnet tool but how to keey they in lastest version. I do not want to update them manual.
I find the github issus: Add dotnet tool update --all option · Issue #10130 · dotnet/sdk

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Could not execute dotnet swagger command
I'm trying to execute the dotnet swagger command but received an error message:
Could not execute because the specified command or file was not found.
Possible reasons for this include:
* You misspelled a built-in dotnet command.
* You intended…

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Cannot list Entity Framework Migrations in Visual Studio 2019 due to dotnet ef dbcontext --json failure
I have an ASP.NET Core 3.0 project that uses .NET Core 3.0. I have recently upgraded VS 2019 to version 16.4.1.
I use Web Publish from Visual Studio to deploy the application on various environments, but this failed after the upgrade due to EF…

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Update .NET Core Tools
I'm trying to use EntityFrameworkCore@3.1. In order to do this at this point I already have:
- Installed Visual Studio 2019 Preview
- Installed the .NET Core 3.1 Runtime
- Installed the .NET Core 3.1 SDK
Now I still can't run the command dotnet ef…

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