Generator option for a solution with projects?

[TheDarkTrumpet]

Hey all,

I'm still somewhat new to ASP.net but one pattern I've noticed from the book I've read, for a complete project is:

Solution-Folder/
Solution-Name.sln
Project.WebUI
Project.UnitTests
Project.Domain

An example of what I mean is:
https://sportsstorevs2011.codeplex.com/SourceControl/latest -- under the 'SportsStore' application.

I'm curious if anyone knows a way to generate this kind of structure with existing tools? I'm tempted to extend the generator-aspnet to allow this kind of structure, but I wanted to ask first if anyone knew a way to do this.

[jchannon]

We'd love this for traditional .Net apps however its quite tricky as you
have to generated guids and modify solution files etc. I'm sure it can be
done but I believe its quite tricky. @sayedihashimi may no more

[nosami]

try https://github.com/nosami/grunt-init-csharpsolution

[TheDarkTrumpet]

Thanks. This I had starred already, and forgot about it (kinda in information overload a bit).
I'm curious, if people are using vnext apps at this point (e.g. through generator), how are unit tests handled? Is it basically creating two separate projects and symlinking or copying stuff over?
Thanks again for the feedback.
-David
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 11:27:21 -0800
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try https://github.com/nosami/grunt-init-csharpsolution

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[TheDarkTrumpet]

This project, the grunt-init-csharp solution one looks interesting, but I have a feeling (at least from my understanding now) that we'll need another solution, too, for the vnext stuff.

One thing I noticed is, with Omnisharp, that the references used from the project.json file (while in folder mode) aren't loaded. I generated a new console solution, ran omnisharp in folder mode, and checked references loaded. I had some added references in the project.json file, and those weren't loaded for autocomplete capability.

I'll look at the Omnisharp base code and see what's going on there.

[nosami]

You should probably use the dth branch of omnisharp-server (which was a quick spike)..... omnisharp-roslyn https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-roslyn is coming with good support but it's still some way off.

[TheDarkTrumpet]

Thanks, I'll take a look at that.

I'm really hoping that, after some ramp-up, that I can help with this project. I'm very excited to see the work done to make this work on linux/mac.

I'll go ahead and 'close' this issue, and see start trying to work with the source code. Thanks again for your help.