Custom Dotnet New Templates

This repository contains the demo templates from my talk at Swetugg 2025 entitled "dotnet new Templates: an underused tool in a .NET developers toolkit".

Installing Locally

If you want to install and test these locally:

• Clone this repository
• Navigate to the Templates folder
• cmd > dotnet new install .\

Templates

Each template is in its own folder inside Templates. Look at .template.config\template.json to see the configuration file for each template.

Item Template

dotnet new demoitem

Project Template

dotnet new demoproject -n MyProject

Solution Template

dotnet new demosolution -n MyApp

Resources

• Source code of Microsoft's templates

• Microsoft's Tutorial on creating templates

• Templating docs

• Source name considerations