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The command line compiler didn't include dependency management, project creation etc.?

• mattmanser 11y ago
  If you're going to build via cli, you'll already be using 'nuget restore'[1] as part of a bat file or whatever in your build. And you'd have to be pretty belligerent of VS to use a cli to create a .Net project instead of clicking 'File > New > Project...'. Although the amount of crap they add in to a asp.net project these days is phenomenal. You spend 20 minutes deleting all the junk they've added. It just seems to be a simplification. In all honesty the article doesn't actually say anything really about why we should use it. [1] https://docs.nuget.org/consume/command-line-reference#restore-command https://docs.nuget.org/consume/command-line-reference#restor...
  • darklajid 11y ago
    No, the article makes that rather clear: You don't have VS on other platforms. This is a cli interface for every supported OS/platform, while you had to use msbuild/xbuild previously (and a couple of things on top, nuget being one). Obviously you can do everything .Net related already - if you're sitting in VS on Windows.
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• chiph 11y ago
  csc.exe did not. In ye olde days, you'd have to use nmake or similar (batch files - gahh!) to manage compiling applications that had multiple source files.