Enable showing parameter descriptions in the New Project Dialog

[RehanSaeed]

I have several custom parameters for which I have provided descriptions in my template.json file. This appear when using the CLI. However, in Visual Studio they do not. Is it possible to get them to show up?

E.g. I have the following in template.json for the Title parameter:

    "Title": {
      "type": "parameter",
      "datatype": "string",
      "defaultValue": "Project Title",
      "replaces": "PROJECT-TITLE",
      "description": "The name of the project which determines the NuGet package name and assembly product name."
    },

It would be nice if the description could be used in the UI somehow.

Secondly, I have a lot of parameters. Is there a way that I could group related parameters together somehow?

[sayedihashimi]

Can you share the source files for the template? I'd like to try it out.

Is there a way that I could group related parameters together somehow?

We do not have any grouping yet, but we can start to think about what that might look like.

[RehanSaeed]

Sure, I have a PR up here to add VS support Dotnet-Boxed/Templates#836

[RehanSaeed]

Also updated the issue above with more details about the description I'm talking about.

[sayedihashimi]

OK I see what you mean now. We do not currently have the ability to show descriptions for the parameters.

We are considering adding an info icon tooltip, would that work for you? Here is a sample mockup that I put together for your template. Would that work for you?

cc @vijayrkn @phenning

[sayedihashimi]

Added a new issue to track the grouping over at #9

[RehanSaeed]

The info tooltips would be perfect!

[sayedihashimi]

FYI I changed the title, and created an internal work item to track this work. Internal work item number is 1242259

[RehanSaeed]

This is done.