Template solution for C# based Visual Studio projects

This is a template of which I think acts as a good starting point for a new solution. My goals of this template are:

• Having a template which provides as much configuration as possible to reflect my personal development tools and coding styles.
• Act as a playground and test environment for latest development tools.

Features

• All project templates based on new project system (dotnet/project-system)
• Common project settings separated in a set of .props files
• Templates for several project types
  • .NET Core 2 Class Library
  • .NET 4.7.1 WPF App
• Code Analysis with predefined rulesets (configured in CodeAnalysis.props).
  • FxCop
  • StyleCop
  • Invoked on a per-project basis using NuGet packages
  • Separate rulesets for production code and unit test
  • General no warning policy! That is, every message breaks the build, with no excuse. To get rid of a message, it must be fixed, suppressed in code (with proper justification) or disabled in the ruleset.
• Unit Test templates for xUnit and MSTest 2
• Unit Tests preconfigured to use
  • FluentAssertions
  • NSubstitute
• Unit Tests working with TDD tools:
  • VS Live Unit Testing (not in combination with PostSharp!, see „Known Issues”)
  • ReSharper Ultimate
  • NCrunch
• ReSharper configuration to support coding rules.
• All 3rd party libraries imported via NuGet

Known Issues

Project System/WPF

As of March 2018, the new project system is not feature-complete compared to the classic project system (planned for VS 16.0, see missing features of the .NET project system). WPF is not officially supported. The WPF.props file should provide everything to build WPF projects. Anyway, it lacks IntelliSense in the XAML designer and Blend does not work.

PostSharp/VS Live Unit Testing

PostSharp is incompatible with Visual Studio Live Unit Testing