The new XAF Blazor UI has all the community going crazy and doing all sort of cool projects. If you have read the XAF Blazor FAQ you know that:

“The wizard does not currently support the capability to add Blazor UI projects to existing XAF applications. To re-use your existing business model, platform-independent controllers and Application Model settings, attach your platform-independent modules to a new Blazor application (Add a Module in Code). Modules should be converted to .NET Standard 2.0. See the following article: How to port an XAF platform-agnostic module to .NET Standard 2.0+.”

There has been a lot of interest in this topic so we decided to create a quick video about having your XAF Win, Web and Blazor in the same solution.

You can see the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5xvMPm0LJI&t=

Now, let’s create a custom template that contains all platform XAF offer us.

Step 1 –  .template.config

We need to create a folder called .template.config in the root of the solution directory.

Step 2 –  template.json

Inside the new created folder we need to add a file called template.json that looks like this:

As you can see in this link our template will be called by its shortname “xafall” and the sourcename it is for replacing with your own project name.

Step 3 –  Install the template

As simple as dotnet new –install ~path to the root directory of the template solution.

In our case:

The new template is installed and ready to use.

Now,

And Boom:

Pretty neat right?

We now could create a nuget package for our template and have it available for the community. If you want to learn more about custom template, I would highly encourage you to check this Channel 9 Series: https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/Use-an-Existing-NET-Core-Project-Template

Source code: https://github.com/jjcolumb/XAFUnifiedProject

Bonus:

Want to see your template in a GUI and not use the CLI?

In Visual Studio under Preview Features check the following checkbox:

Until next time. XAF out!