DotPurple v1.7 - Browsable template list and quality of life improvements!
Sunday, May 16, 2021 at 03:05 PM
On the heels of v1.6 comes a new version of DotPurple with one new big feature and many smaller improvements!
Browse >950 templates to install in one click!
Just like the list of .NET CLI tools that's open source on our GitHub, we now have an open-source list of .NET templates that you can install with one click. Yes, we really mean one click -- we realize that in previous versions of DotPurple, the "one-click" installs of CLI tools took....two clicks. Now they take one. Save yourself 50% clicks!
You can find this open-source list here on our GitHub repo. Missing one? Send in a PR!
Quality of Life Improvements
Just like the one-click-install-now-actually-taking-one-click improvement mentioned above, we've made several other improvements to DotPurple that'll make your life a little easier.
Add an existing project to a solution:
Remove a project from a solution:
As well as these other changes:
- Added a refresh/reload button to the tools and template screens
- Run tool now defaults to the selected tool in the main available tool list
- Improve UI here and there on Tools & Templates screens
- Fixed not ignoring case when sorting several different things (project names, subprojects...)
- Fixed uninstall tool not showing the tool's package ID / name sometimes
- Use "net5.0" instead of "net5" -- if you get issues with building or running, try cleaning your project and/or using a custom target framework of 'net5' (or update your project's TargetFrameworks property)
- Allow copying settings from one profile to another in a more convenient way (auto-saves -- be careful!)
- Fixed bug where 'Other' framework type (e.g. 'net5.0-windows') didn't work right
- Fixed bug in newer versions of .NET 5 where project types didn't load on create project
- Fixed bug where you couldn't copy profiles to projects that hadn't been loaded in this session of the app (might make loading the "Copy To..." dialog take a little longer to load)