Best strategy to keep a CA solution up to date

[mrhighstone]

I noticed there has been quite some work done on the CA solution in the past weeks. Given that I started a recent CA project a few weeks ago, what would be the best/most convenient/solid strategy to keep my solution up to date with latest and greatest improvements?

[jasontaylordev]

Hi @mrhighstone,

There's no automated upgrade mechanism - that's a limitation of the dotnet new template system itself. Here's the approach I recommend:

1. Uninstall the current version of the template:
   dotnet new uninstall Clean.Architecture.Solution.Template
2. Install the version that matches your current project:
   dotnet new install Clean.Architecture.Solution.Template::X.X.X
3. Create a new project based on your current template version:
   dotnet new ca-sln
4. Initialize a git repo and commit:
   git init
git add .
git commit -m "Initial Commit"
5. Install the latest version of the template:
   dotnet new install Clean.Architecture.Solution.Template
6. Overwrite with the new template:
   dotnet new ca-sln --force
7. Use git diff or VS Code to compare the changes and selectively apply what makes sense for your project.

Note: I haven't released a new version of the template yet - still working through the dependency upgrades. Once that's done I'll publish a new version to NuGet.

Hope this helps!

[mrhighstone]

Ha, that is what I expected, and used so far. Good to have this documented anyway

[jasontaylordev]

The new version has been published now; https://www.nuget.org/packages/Clean.Architecture.Solution.Template/10.1.0