What's new in .NET 10: new ways to use the .NET CLI

With .NET 10 the command line also went through improvements, including new aliases for running some commands. These changes involve a new way of executing commands in which the .NET CLI ( dotnet ) happened through a name + the verb that identifies the action , although the original form is still valid (starting with a verb, as in dotnet add ).

Below are the new forms, followed by the commands in their original form:

• dotnet package add , which is equivalent to dotnet add package
• dotnet packages list , equivalent to a dotnet list package
• dotnet package remove , also equivalent to dotnet remove package
• dotnet reference add , which is equivalent to dotnet add reference
• dotnet references list , equivalent to a dotnet references list
• dotnet reference remove , also equivalent to dotnet remove reference

The reason for these changes, according to the documentation, is to make command-line instructions more readable and consistent in scripts or documentation.

In the image below we can see a use of the dotnet package add command (a new form for dotnet add package ):