We have made custom Umbraco templates that are available for use with dotnet new. The steps below will demonstrate the minimum amount of actions required to get you going and set up an Umbraco project from the command line using .NET templates.
Run dotnet new install Umbraco.Templates to install the project templates.
The solution is packaged up into the NuGet packageUmbraco.Templatesand can be installed into the dotnet CLI.
Once that is complete, you can see that Umbraco was added to the list of available projects types by running dotnet new --list:
Templates Short Name Language Tags
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Umbraco Project umbraco [C#] Web/CMS/Umbraco
Umbraco Package umbracopackage [C#] Web/CMS/Umbraco/Package/Plugin
Templates Short Name Language Tags
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Umbraco Solution umbraco [C#] Web/CMS/Umbraco
Umbraco Package umbracopackage [C#] Web/CMS/Umbraco/Package/Plugin
In some cases the templates may silently fail to install (usually this is an issue with NuGet sources). If this occurs you can try specifying the NuGet source in the command by running dotnet new install Umbraco.Templates --nuget-source "https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json".
To get help on a project template with dotnet new run the following command:
dotnet new umbraco -h
From that command's output, you will get a better understanding of what are the default template options, as well as those command-line flags specific to Umbraco that you can use (as seen below):
Umbraco Project (C#)
Author: Umbraco HQ
Description: An empty Umbraco project ready to get started.
Options:
-v|--version The version of Umbraco.Cms to add as PackageReference.
string - Optional
Default: 10.0.0
--use-https-redirect Adds code to Startup.cs to redirect HTTP to HTTPS and enables the UseHttps setting.
bool - Optional
Default: false
--no-restore If specified, skips the automatic restore of the project on create.
bool - Optional
Default: false
--exclude-gitignore Whether to exclude .gitignore from the generated template.
bool - Optional
Default: false
--minimal-gitignore Whether to only include minimal (Umbraco specific) rules in the .gitignore.
bool - Optional
Default: false
--connection-string Database connection string used by Umbraco.
string - Optional
--connection-string-provider-name Database connection string provider name used by Umbraco.
string - Optional
Default: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient
--development-database-type Database type used by Umbraco for development.
None - Do not configure a database for development.
SQLite - Use embedded SQLite database.
LocalDB - Use embedded LocalDB database (requires SQL Server Express with Advanced Services).
Default: None
--friendly-name Used to specify the name of the default admin user when using unattended install on development (stored as plain text).
string - Optional
--email Used to specify the email of the default admin user when using unattended install on development (stored as plain text).
string - Optional
--password Used to specify the password of the default admin user when using unattended install on development (stored as plain text).
string - Optional
--no-nodes-view-path Path to a custom view presented with the Umbraco installation contains no published content.
string - Optional
-p|--PackageTestSiteName The name of the package project this should be a test site for.
string - Optional
Umbraco Project (C#)
Author: Umbraco HQ
Description: An empty Umbraco Project ready to get started
Options:
-v|--version The version of Umbraco to load using NuGet
string - Optional
Default: 9.0.0
-p|--PackageTestSiteName The name of the package this should be a test site for (Default: '')
text - Optional
-ce|--SqlCe Adds the required dependencies to use SqlCE (Windows only) (Default: false)
bool - Optional
Default: false
-F|--Framework The target framework for the project
net5.0 - Target net5.0
net6.0 - Target net6.0
Default: net5.0
--no-restore If specified, skips the automatic restore of the project on create
bool - Optional
Default: false
--friendly-name The friendly name of the user for Umbraco login when using Unattended install (Without installer wizard UI)
text - Optional
--email Email to use for Umbraco login when using Unattended install (Without installer wizard UI)
text - Optional
--password Password to use for Umbraco login when using Unattended install (Without installer wizard UI)
text - Optional
--connection-string Database connection string when using Unattended install (Without installer wizard UI)
text - Optional
--no-nodes-view-path Path to a custom view presented with the Umbraco installation contains no published content
text - Optional
--use-https-redirect Adds code to Startup.cs to redirect HTTP to HTTPS and enables the UseHttps setting (Default: false)
bool - Optional
Default: false
Create an Umbraco project
Create a new empty Umbraco solution using MS SQL Azure/Server:
dotnet new umbraco -n MyCustomUmbracoProject
You will now have a new project with the name MyCustomUmbracoProject, or the name you chose to use. The new project can be opened and run using your favorite IDE or you can continue using the CLI commands.
If you want to create a solution file as well you can run the commands below.
dotnet new slndotnet sln add MyCustomUmbracoProject
Run Umbraco
Navigate to the newly created project folder:
cd MyCustomUmbracoProject
Build and run the new Umbraco .Net Core project:
dotnet builddotnet run
The project is now running on the Kestrel server and has assigned a free available port to run it on. Look in the terminal window after the dotnet run command to see the URLs.
The next step is to run through the Umbraco CMS installation. If you chose to use MS SQL Server/Azure you will need to add your connection string during this setup process to get access to the Umbraco backoffice.
