CSharp Toolkit for Pulsar

VersionLicense: MIT

A complete C#/.NET toolkit for Pulsar: create whole .NET projects from the built-in templates, scaffold classes, interfaces, controllers, Razor pages, UWP views, test classes and ready-to-go constructors — all from the tree view or the command palette.

Note: Formerly published as csharpextensions-pulsar. See the migration note below.

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✨ Features

Create .NET Project

• Command palette ▸ CSharp Toolkit: Create .NET Project → a searchable template picker (Console, Class Library, ASP.NET Core Web API, MVC, Blazor, MAUI, xUnit/NUnit/MSTest, …) with short names and tag descriptions.
• Templates are read live from dotnet new list; if the CLI output cannot be parsed, a curated fallback list is shown — the picker always works.
• Enter the project name and destination folder (validated live), and the package runs dotnet new <template> -n <name> -o <path> with a progress notification and clear error reporting (including a "install the .NET SDK" helper when dotnet is missing).
• Optionally opens the new project in the same or a new Pulsar window (configurable; default: ask).

File scaffolding

• New C# Class / Interface / Enum / Struct / Record / Record Struct / Abstract Class / Static Class with auto-resolved namespaces.
• MVC Controller, API Controller (CRUD skeleton), Razor Page (Name.cshtml + Name.cshtml.cs), UWP Page / Window / UserControl (Name.xaml + Name.xaml.cs), UWP Resource File (.resw).
• xUnit / NUnit / MSTest test classes, plus a generic New Unit Test Class command driven by the testFramework setting.
• Constructor from Properties (block or expression-bodied) with automatic missing-using detection (xUnit-style confirmation or silent).
• Smart tree-view context menu ("New C#") that hides the ASP.NET/UWP groups in projects that don't need them.

Quality-of-life

• C# 10 file-scoped namespaces, nullable header, Allman/K&R braces, interface prefix — all configurable.
• Full identifier validation (keywords, Unicode, verbatim @).
• Custom user templates in ~/.pulsar/csharpextensions-templates/.
• Bilingual messages: English / فارسی (RTL-aware dialogs).

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📦 Installation

ppm install csharp-toolkit

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🚀 Usage

Action	How
Create a whole .NET project	Command Palette ▸ CSharp Toolkit: Create .NET Project (requires the .NET SDK on PATH)
New class / interface / …	Right-click a folder in the tree view ▸ New C#, or the Command Palette
Constructor from properties	Cursor inside a class ▸ Ctrl+Alt+Shift+C

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⚙️ Settings

Setting	Default
Namespace style (block / file-scoped)	block
Nullable reference types header	off
Interface prefix	I
Brace style	allman
Default constructor style	regular
Unit test framework	xunit
Confirm adding usings	on
Hide ASP.NET/UWP groups in non-matching projects	on
Open created .NET project (ask / current / new window)	ask
Message language	en

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⚠️ Migration from csharpextensions-pulsar

This package was renamed from csharpextensions-pulsar to csharp-toolkit in version 0.3.0. There is no automatic migration between the two registry entries: please uninstall the old package and install csharp-toolkit.

Your settings are migrated automatically on first run (copied from the old csharpextensions-pulsar.* config scope into csharp-toolkit.*), and all command names now use the csharp-toolkit: prefix — update any personal keybindings that referenced the old prefix.

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🛠 Development

git clone https://github.com/armindaraei1381/csharp-toolkit
cd csharp-toolkit
ppm install
ppm link
# Reload Pulsar, then: View ▸ Developer ▸ Run Package Specs
ppm test

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👏 Credits

• Author & maintainer: Armin Daraei
• Inspired by — and developed in gratitude to — jchannon/csharpextensions by Justin Channon and the KreativJos/csharpextensions fork for VS Code. This package is an independent, native re-implementation for Pulsar, not a port of their source code.

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📄 License

MIT — this is a derivative work of an MIT-licensed project; the original license notice is preserved in LICENSE.md.