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 Creating a Simple Project
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Creating a Simple Project

  Before you start this procedure, you must have all {{{../installation/index.html} Pre-requisites}} in place and have
  successfully completed all steps in the previous section entitled Installing and Verifying NPanday .NET Build Tool.

  We will use the Maven Archetype Plugin to generate a skeleton project. It will be created as a subdirectory of the
  current working directory in the command shell.

  Execute the following command to create a C# project:

  ~~TODO: how can we get the archetypes into a catalog so they can be easily viewed?

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mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-dotnet-simple -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.npanday \
  -DarchetypeVersion=[version]
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  When prompted, select the co-ordinates for the project that you wish to use, eg:

    * group ID = <<<com.example>>>

    * artifact ID = <<<Example.Project>>>

    * version = <<<1.0-SNAPSHOT>>>

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  The command creates the project in the Example.Project directory, which will now contain the following:
  
+------+
.
|-- src
| `-- main
|   `-- csharp
|     `-- Sample
|       `-- MyApp.cs
|   `-- resources
| `-- test
|   `-- csharp
`- pom.xml
+------+

  From inside the Solution directory (<<<Example.Project>>>), execute the following command to build and install the
  Example.Project DLL files into your repository:
  
  <<<mvn install>>>
  
  The <<<mvn install>>> command typically puts artifacts (installs them) into the repository here,
  <<<C:\\Users\\[username]\\.m2\\repository>>>.
  
  The sample project contains NUnit tests. If the build fails on <<<nunit-console>>>, make sure you have NUnit 2.2+
  installed and located in the PATH.
  
  You can clean up the target directory and download dependencies by executing:
  
  <<<mvn clean>>>

* Creating other types of projects

  Other types of template projects are available. To use them instead, change the <<<archetypeArtifactId>>> option to
  one of the following:

    * <<<maven-archetype-dotnet-simple>>> - simple C# project with unit tests in the Maven directory layout

    * <<<maven-archetype-vb-simple>>> - simple Visual Basic project with unit tests in the Maven directory layout

    * <<<maven-archetype-netexecutable>>> - simple project for creating a console executable

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