Try .NET

|| Basics • Contribution Guidelines • Experiences || Setup • Getting Started || Samples ||

Basics

What is Try .NET: Try .NET is an interactive documentation generator for .NET Core.

Please Note: At the moment Try .NET only works with C# documentation.

Contribution Guidelines

As we are still in the early stages of our development, we are unable to take any feature PRs at the moment but, we do intend to do this in the future. Please feel free to file any bugs reports under our issues. And if you have any feature suggestion, please submit them under our issues using the community suggestions label.

Experiences

Use Try .NET to create executable C# snippets for your websites or, interactive markdown files that users can run on their machine.

Websites

Microsoft Docs uses Try .NET to create interactive documentation. Users can run and edit code all in the browser.

Interactive .NET documentation

Try .NET enables .NET developers to create interactive markdown files. To make your markdown files interactive, you will need to .NET Core 3.0 SDK, the dotnet try global tool(coming soon) and Visual Studio / VS Code(or any other editor of your choice).

Setup

Before you get can start creating interactive documentation, you will need to install the following:

.NET Core 3.0 SDK and 2.1 currently dotnet try global tool targets 2.1.
dotnet try global tool

dotnet tool install --global dotnet-try --version 1.0.19264.11

Updating to the latest version of the tool is easy just run the command below

dotnet tool update -g dotnet-try

Once you have successfully installed dotnet try global tool, enter the command dotnet try -h you will see a list of commands:

Command	Purpose
`demo`	Learn how to create Try .NET content with an interactive demo
`verify`	Verify Markdown files in the target directory and its children.

Getting Started

You can get started using either one of the options below.

Option1: dotnet try demo

Create a new folder.
cd to your new folder.
Run command dotnet try demo

Option 2: Starting from scratch.

Go to the terminal and create a folder called mydoc.
cd to the mydoc folder and create a new console app with the following command

   > dotnet new console -o myApp

This will create a console app with the files myApp.csproj and Program.cs.

Open mydocfolder in Visual Studio Code.
Create a file called doc.md. Inside that file, add some text and a code fence:

# My Interactive Document:

```cs --source-file ./myApp/Program.cs --project ./myApp/myApp.csproj
```

Now, navigate back to the mydoc folder and run the following command:

     > dotnet try

You have created your first C# interactive developer experience. You should now be able to run your console app and see the result in the browser.

Option 3: Explore our samples Branch.