Problem

How do DotNetCliTool references change from Preview2?

Who is the customer?

• DotNet Devs using dotnetclitool references
• DotNet Devs building dotnetclitool references

Solution

toolsref in csproj

Plan of Record for Preview 5 OOB:

          <DotNetCliToolsReference Include="EF.Tools">
                <Version>2.0.0</Version>
          </DotNetCliToolsReference>

Restore location for Tools Today:

%userprofile%\.nuget\tools\EF.Tools\1.0.0
%userprofile%\.nuget\tools\EF.Tools\2.0.0

Restore location for Tools in P5OOB:

%userprofile%\.nuget\toolsPreview5\EF.Tools\1.0\project.assets.json
%userprofile%\.nuget\toolsPreview5\EF.Tools\1.0\<SomeHexHashForImports>\project.assets.json

CLI Team: Will enhance CLI to be able to run tools that were registered/restored as above.

Plan of Record for Post-Preview 5 OOB: There are many issues that people wanted to review/improve in this area. Let’s have the longer term discussion around 9/30 as the P5OOB fires are all out.