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dotnet tools and dotnet new Templates: Local Tool Manifests, dnx, Packaging Your Own Tool and Template

The way to tie a .NET tool to a repo is a local tool manifest: the version is committed in dotnet-tools.json and CI starts with dotnet tool restore. We package bookstore-admin with PackAsTool and install it in Reporting from the internal feed, and show with real output how dnx respects source mapping, SDK 11's NETSDK1235 warning, the bookstore-module template package and a file-based script that uses #:include.