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I have been looking over the material for the new templating engine, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tutorials/cli-templates-create-item-template and https://github.com/dotnet/templating/tree/main, and have created a .template.json file that has everything i need. The issue is what i thought would bring up a form does not and i need forms to take in a little bit of data from the user in both VS 2022 Mac and VS 2022 PC. Below is my sudo code:
{
"$schema": "http://json.schemastore.org/template",
"author": ",
"classifications": [ "Web" ],
"generatorVersions": "[1.0.*)",
"identity": "",
"name": "",
"groupIdentity": "",
"shortName": "",
"sourceName": "Template.1",
"tags": {
"language": "C#",
"type": "project"
},
"preferNameDirectory": true,
"symbols": {
"ClientId": {
"type": "parameter",
"displayName": "AzureAD Application (client) ID",
"defaultValue": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
"replaces": "__CLIENTID__"
},
"TenantId": {
"type": "parameter",
"displayName": "AzureAD Directory (tenant) ID",
"defaultValue": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
"replaces": "__TENANTID__"
},
"ClientSecret": {
"type": "parameter",
"displayName": "AzureAD Client Secret",
"defaultValue": "00000~0000000000000000000000000000000000",
"replaces": "__CLIENTSECRET__"
},
"ApiScopes": {
"type": "parameter",
"displayName": "API Scopes (space delimited)",
"defaultValue": "user.read",
"replaces": "__APISCOPES__"
},
"SkipRestore": {
"type": "parameter",
"datatype": "bool",
"description": "If specified, skips the automatic restore of the project on create.",
"defaultValue": "false"
}
},
"postActions": [
{
"condition": "(!skipRestore)",
"description": "Restore NuGet packages required by this project.",
"manualInstructions": [
{ "text": "Run 'dotnet restore'" }
],
"actionId": "210D431B-A78B-4D2F-B762-4ED3E3EA9025",
"continueOnError": true
}
]
}
@Gregory Lange, Welcome to Microsoft Q&A, I am not clear about your meaning. I followed the first doc you provided, I could use the item template successfully. Do you mean that you want to show your templates in vs2022 when adding templates, like the following answer?
Visual Studio 2019 Item Template only showing up for certain types of projects
So i have it there what my issue is are the symbols, from looking at the built in templates and such, should show up on the forms when you are trying to create them. So the Tenant Id, Client Id, etc. should show and allow me to put them in. Then when you click create it would replace the targeted text, which is in the appsettings.json, with what you keyed into the create form.
@Gregory Lange, thanks for the feedback, I still can not understand your question clearly. Did you create item template or project template? could you provide some pictures or explanations about your form? If possible, please provide the detailed steps you have done so that I could have a check for your problem.
I created a Project template as seen below. My issue i am having is the parameters do not show up when you select the template when creating new when using an IDE. So i do not get a form that says Tenant Id: then an input box, Client Id: then an input box etc.. The only one I get is the usual put in a name for your project.
I forgot to add my ide.host.json file also see below.
{
"$schema": "http://json.schemastore.org/vs-2017.3.host",
"icon": "icon.png",
"tags": [
{
"type": "platform",
"add": [ "C#", "MVC", "AzureAD" ]
}
],
"symbolInfo": [
{
"id": "ClientId",
"isVisible": true,
"persistenceScope": "shared"
},
{
"id": "TenantId",
"isVisible": true,
"persistenceScope": "shared"
},
{
"id": "ClientSecret",
"isVisible": true,
"persistenceScope": "shared"
},
{
"id": "ApiScopes",
"isVisible": true,
"persistenceScope": "shared"
},
{
"id": "SkipRestore",
"isVisible": false,
"persistenceScope": "shared"
}
]
}
Any status on what I am missing to have the items show up in the forms? I would like to be able to set that via the initial setup forms.
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Hi,@Gregory Lange, How did you customize the template? Could you share me a minimal project that can reproduce the problem to reproduce the problem and analyze it?
Hi,@@Gregory Lange. How did you customize the template? Could you share with me the minimal project (upload github) that can reproduce the problem to reproduce the problem and analyze it?
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Sorry for the delay, it turns out that in VS For Mac the framework selection is still required or nothing will work as intended. I added that and everything is working for my template. I did see you are sunsetting VS for Mac, but i just hope VS Code is up to par when that occurs.