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Creating applications with Visual Studio has many advantages. One of the most helpful is starting a project with templates. With wizardary, you can create solution scafolding within seconds. The introduction of .net core brought with it the .net core cli. As always, you can create .net core apps using studio however you can also use the cli. This feature is helful for quick demos, proof of concepts, and quick additions when a wizard isn't needed. After playing with it for a while, here are a few quick "help" commands for my reference and yours. dotnet --version It will give you the current runtime version. dotnet -- info It will give you a list of all runtimes installed in addtion to SDKs installed and info about the host system, dotnet --list-runtimes It will give you the runtimes installed. dotnet --list-sdks It will give you the SDKs installed. dotnet new -l It will list out available item creation templates. dotnet --help It will list out avail

My learning of the AWS Command Line Interface is a work in progress at best. Along the way, I have found you can configure default settings including security credentials and the region so that when commands are executed they are done so within the context of your configuration. You can override the configuration by using command line options or by setting environment variables. (A list of supported environment variables can be found here .) Note : My primary workstation OS is Windows 10. After typing the command: aws configure <Enter > you are prompted for four items: AWS Access Key ID AWS Secret Access Key Default region name Default output format You can get the access key and secret from the IAM console . You can pick a default region from the AWS Regions and Endpoint list. You can pick [json, text, or table] as the output format. If left blank, the default is json After running the command, two files config credentials are created in the C:\Users\[Your

My name is Mike Coleman. I am a Senior Developer and Architect with over 18 years of technology experience spanning multiple industries. My primary focus is with the Microsoft .Net stack including Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS.) I hope to share my thoughts and learning experiences with you along the way.