[hitgeek]

it took me a lot of trial and error, but I was able to get a pretty nice asp net core dev env working with the dotnet cli, and vs code. so its possible, but not always easy.

documentation is still confusing and contradictory, but a little less sparse.

I use the dotnet cli for everything, and rarely need to manually edit the csproj. Even when I do, the csproj is very simple straightforward xml, nothing like the old version.

I use node/npm/gulp tool chain for build pipelines. I set up npm wrappers for the dotnet cli, "npm run build", "npm run test", "npm run start", which I like.

my favorite thing is that I can reasonably work on c# projects without full Visual Studio and solutions.