aspnetcore/src/Tools/README.md

DotNetTools

Projects

The folder contains command-line tools for ASP.NET Core that are bundled* in the .NET Core CLI. Follow the links below for more details on each tool.

• dotnet-watch
• dotnet-user-secrets
• dotnet-sql-cache
• dotnet-dev-certs

*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.

Usage

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

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

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

dotnet watch --help