It is so that folks can build and run "tools" that are executed, utilizing the nuget ecosystem.
Relevant links in the dotnet docs (was just a quick google away):
* https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/global-t...
* https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/global-t...
It's actually a top-level doc section in the primary dotnet docs (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/).
To boil it down: you create a console app, add a couple of attributes to the solution file (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/global-t...). Packaging and publishing to nuget (if you want to share with others) is via `dotnet pack` and `dotnet nuget push` with some flags.
I do have to say it's actually very well documented.
I found the announcement page here: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-dotnet-run-...
And here are the docs for “dotnet run” https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/dotnet-r...
You’re right that it’s missing this new functionality. The blog post has some details to get started, but I’m guessing that a docs link or section is missing for that.
Dotnet covers quite a bit so the docs are accordingly larger than other projects that have a smaller scope. I will say though that while hit or miss, on average I’ve enjoyed their docs more than the average project.
1. Install the dotnet sdk preview
2. Make a .CS file with top level statements.
3. dotnet run <file>
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-dotnet-run-...
A dotnet tool is this: "A .NET tool is a special NuGet package that contains a console application. You can install a tool..."
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/global-t...
it's actually very similar to the node.js / NPM equivalent, which came first:
https://docs.npmjs.com/downloading-and-installing-packages-g...