dotnet new command should work with the Name provided without the need to specify the name option (-n)

[egvijayanand]

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dotnet new command should work with the Name provided without the need to specify its parameter name option (-n).

This is especially useful when working with item templates (where specifying the parameter name -n is overhead).

I hope readability also improves a lot.

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dotnet new razorcomponent MyComponent

Note: there is no need to specify the parameter name -n and the first specified parameter is handled as its name.

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[egvijayanand]

Ideally, this should work this way for both project and items templates.

dotnet new maui MyApp

dotnet new maui-page LoginPage

The first value that follows the template shortName to be implicitly treated as Name, without having to mention its key -n|--name. Saves lots of keystrokes and is easy to understand.

Can this be included in the .NET 7 release scope?

[baronfel]

This could be considered, but may be an ambiguous grammar. @vlada-shubina do we pass non-option tokens to templates in any way currently?

[vlada-shubina]

moved to dotnet/templating. This idea is not new, especially for item templates, it was hardly possible to implement it with old parser.

We don't pass non-option tokens to templates at the moment, it should be possible to do it but imo it makes already complex dotnet new syntax even more complex.

[vlada-shubina]

Found same issue here: #3009. Closing as duplicate.