KirillOsenkov
"The term 'cinst' is not recognized as the name of..."
Usage not for newbs apparently! How do I join the club? Nowhere in your readme does it tell someone who has just used VS to do Web Dev how to actually compile/build/deploy/use this project. What is "cinst"? What prompt am I using? I run "SortProjectItems" it opens command prompt with a prompt to press any key to close. CMD & PS don't recognize cinst or SortProjectItems, whether opened from VS or not.
It would be awesome if you could reveal these mysteries to the un-initiated! Thanks!
Yes, these are raw and some assembly is certainly required, sorry about that.
This project is a collection of tools for various purposes, did you have a particular tool in mind? I put it out there to save people time so they can just adapt these to their needs instead of writing stuff from scratch.
after you git clone, you can go to Start Menu -> Developer Command Prompt for VS 2019, then cd to the directory which you just cloned (I assume C:\CodeCleanupTools), then type msbuild /r /m /bl to build it.
After that you could run SortProjectItems for instance using:
dotnet SortProjectItems\bin\Debug\netcoreapp2.0\SortProjectItems.dll /?
This will print help.
But honestly, if you don't know what this tool is for, you probably don't need it. In the last few years the new "SDK-style" .csproj file format became popular, and it doesn't have the problem that SortProjectItems is solving.
cinst is Chocolatey installer, https://chocolatey.org is a way to quickly install software, you'd need to install Chocolatey first via https://chocolatey.org/install, then cinst would work.
But the instructions above don't require Chocolatey, so you can build it yourself.
If you tell me what problem you're looking to solve, I may be able to give more detailed instructions on how to do that. Thanks!
Thanks! Older project with years of messy content includes, Googled for sorting tool this seemed perfect. Building the solution created the dlls in bin\Debug already. Now I know how to invoke from prompt, will give it a go. Have src control so no worries about mess-ups.
On May 20, 2021, at 1:08 PM, Kirill Osenkov @.***> wrote:
Yes, these are raw and some assembly is certainly required, sorry about that.
This project is a collection of tools for various purposes, did you have a particular tool in mind? I put it out there to save people time so they can just adapt these to their needs instead of writing stuff from scratch.
after you git clone, you can go to Start Menu -> Developer Command Prompt for VS 2019, then cd to the directory which you just cloned (I assume C:\CodeCleanupTools), then type msbuild /r /m /bl to build it.
After that you could run SortProjectItems for instance using:
dotnet SortProjectItems\bin\Debug\netcoreapp2.0\SortProjectItems.dll /?
This will print help.
But honestly, if you don't know what this tool is for, you probably don't need it. In the last few years the new "SDK-style" .csproj file format became popular, and it doesn't have the problem that SortProjectItems is solving.
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