`dotnet new aichatweb` arguments in tutorial are wrong

[Aaronontheweb]

Type of issue

Code doesn't work

Description

If you use any of the arguments from the tutorial to use the dotnet new aichatweb template, such as:

dotnet new aichatweb --framework "net9.0" --AiServiceProvider "ollama" --VectorStore "local"

This will error out :

Error: Invalid option(s):
--framework
   '--framework' is not a valid option
net9.0
   'net9.0' is not a valid option
--AiServiceProvider
   '--AiServiceProvider' is not a valid option
ollama
   'ollama' is not a valid option
--VectorStore
   '--VectorStore' is not a valid option
local
   'local' is not a valid option

This is apparently because the template has been updated and these parameters have been renamed:

λ  dotnet new aichatweb -h
AI Chat Web App (C#)
Author: Microsoft
Description: A project template for creating an AI chat application, which uses retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to chat with your own data.

Usage:
  dotnet new aichatweb [options] [template options]

Options:
  -n, --name <name>       The name for the output being created. If no name is specified, the name of the output directory is used.
  -o, --output <output>   Location to place the generated output.
  --dry-run               Displays a summary of what would happen if the given command line were run if it would result in a template creation.
  --force                 Forces content to be generated even if it would change existing files.
  --no-update-check       Disables checking for the template package updates when instantiating a template.
  --project <project>     The project that should be used for context evaluation.
  -lang, --language <C#>  Specifies the template language to instantiate.
  --type <project>        Specifies the template type to instantiate.

Template options:
  -F, --Framework <net9.0>                             The target framework for the project.
                                                       Type: choice
                                                         net9.0  Target net9.0
                                                       Default: net9.0
  --provider <azureopenai|githubmodels|ollama|openai>  Type: choice
                                                         azureopenai   Uses Azure OpenAI service
                                                         githubmodels  Uses GitHub Models
                                                         ollama        Uses Ollama with the llama3.2 and all-minilm models
                                                         openai        Uses the OpenAI Platform
                                                       Default: githubmodels
  --vector-store <azureaisearch|local|qdrant>          Type: choice
                                                         local          Uses a JSON file on disk. You can change the implementation to a real vector database
                                                       before publishing.
                                                         azureaisearch  Uses Azure AI Search. This also avoids the need to define a data ingestion pipeline,
                                                       since it's managed by Azure AI Search.
                                                         qdrant         Uses Qdrant in a Docker container, orchestrated using Aspire.
                                                       Default: local
  --managed-identity                                   Use managed identity to access Azure services
                                                       Enabled if: (!UseAspire && VectorStore != "qdrant" && (AiServiceProvider == "azureopenai" ||
                                                       AiServiceProvider == "azureaifoundry" || VectorStore == "azureaisearch"))
                                                       Type: bool
                                                       Default: true
  --aspire                                             Create the project as a distributed application using .NET Aspire.
                                                       Type: bool
                                                       Default: false
  -C, --ChatModel <ChatModel>                          Model/deployment for chat completions. Example: gpt-4o-mini
                                                       Type: string
  -E, --EmbeddingModel <EmbeddingModel>                Model/deployment for embeddings. Example: text-embedding-3-small

Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/ai/quickstarts/ai-templates?tabs=visual-studio%2Cconfigure-visual-studio&pivots=github-models

Content source URL

https://github.com/dotnet/docs/blob/main/docs/ai/quickstarts/ai-templates.md

Document Version Independent Id

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Platform Id

0689a818-6031-ad99-46f1-044d1ce482aa

Article author

@alexwolfmsft

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Related Issues

[gewarren]

Thank you. I believe this was fixed by #46357.

[Aaronontheweb]

Great, thank you!