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❔ ✅ DotNet Templating Bind Project Name

With dotnet, there is a templating tool. It supports symbol replacement. With that you can bind to various properties.

https://github.com/dotnet/templating/wiki/Binding-and-project-context-evaluation#bind-symbols

I would like to get the project name. This would be whatever the developer submitted for their project name.

There is a feature which replaces the project name, using the sourceNamesourceName property, but this is a "safe" project name which uses __.

I have tried many bindings I would expect to work but none do.
msbuild:projectnamemsbuild:projectname
context:projectnamecontext:projectname
projectnameprojectname
targetnametargetname
projectproject
namename

I also tried creating a derived symbol from the source name but I am unable to find the binding for the source name.

Rider doesn't support custom parameter symbols so I want to avoid that for now since Rider is quite popular among my developer audience.

GitHub

Binding and project context evaluation · dotnet/templating Wiki

This repo contains the Template Engine which is used by dotnet new - Binding and project context evaluation · dotnet/templating Wiki