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How to Use

Overview

Project templates are available for Visual Studio and .NET CLI.

Create a project in Visual Studio

You can create a project using a project template from the new project creation dialog of Visual Studio.

When you create a project, a project containing a manifest file and a sample implementation of extensions will be created as follows.

The following two types of project templates are available.

  • Next Design Extension ... Standard extension template.
  • Next Design Extension (Extension Points) ... An extension template that makes defining extension points very simple.

Create a project from the command line

You can create a project using a project template by executing the following command from the command line.

dotnet new ndext -n MyExt1

Also, you can create a project using NextDesign.Desktop.ExtensionPoints that enables simpler extension development by executing the following command.

dotnet new ndextp -n MyExt2