# DotNetTools

**Repository Path**: mirrors_aspnet/DotNetTools

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: DotNetTools
- **Description**: [Archived] Various .NET command line tools. Project moved to https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetCore
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Apache-2.0
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-08-08
- **Last Updated**: 2025-08-23

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## README

DotNetTools [Archived]
======================

**This GitHub project has been archived.** Ongoing development on this project can be found in <https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetCore>.

This project is part of ASP.NET Core. You can find samples, documentation and getting started instructions for ASP.NET Core at <https://docs.asp.net>.

## Projects

The repository contains command-line tools for ASP.NET Core that are bundled* in the [.NET Core CLI](https://github.com/dotnet/cli).
Follow the links below for more details on each tool.

 - [dotnet-watch](src/dotnet-watch/README.md)
 - [dotnet-user-secrets](src/dotnet-user-secrets/README.md)
 - [dotnet-sql-cache](src/dotnet-sql-cache/README.md)
 - [dotnet-dev-certs](src/dotnet-dev-certs/README.md)

*\*This applies to .NET Core CLI 2.1.300-preview2 and up. For earlier versions of the CLI, these tools must be installed separately.*

*For 2.0 CLI and earlier, see <https://github.com/aspnet/DotNetTools/tree/rel/2.0.0/README.md> for details.*

*For 2.1.300-preview1 CLI, see <https://github.com/aspnet/DotNetTools/tree/2.1.0-preview1-final/README.md> for details.*

## Usage

The command line tools can be invoked as a subcommand of `dotnet`.

```sh
dotnet watch
dotnet user-secrets
dotnet sql-cache
dotnet dev-certs
```

Add `--help` to see more details. For example,

```
dotnet watch --help
```