Please document how to change default console template.

[alexanderpino]

Could you please document how we can change the console template back to the 'classic' Program + Main.

adegeo EDIT

We've opened up a new issue specifically for voting on how you feel about the templates. #27420

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• Content: C# template changes in .NET 6 - .NET
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[tdykstra]

@adegeo @BillWagner

[KathleenDollard]

There is no direct way to do this in .NET 6. There are two approaches:

• Copy the code that appears in this docs article.
  • Either leave out the usings or remove remove implicit usings from your project file
• Target .NET 5 in your template, and then change the framework to .NET 6 in your project file after the project is created

We want feedback. Voting on this issue is one of the ways folks can provide feedback.

@tdykstra @BillWagner would you update the docs to indicate this, and let me know if you need anything from me.

[BillWagner]

For now, you can do this:

dotnet new console --framework net5.0

Or, any other older framework.

Then, you can change the TFM to .NET 6:

<TargetFramework>net6.0</TargetFramework>

[adegeo]

Use

dotnet new console --framework net5.0 --target-framework-override net6.0

This will generate the old-style template but force the framework in the project to net6.0

[Walluce]

Can you please post a link to where I can vote against this new "feature"?

[svick]

@Walluce If you want to suggest that the dotnet new console template should be changed, then the right repo would be dotnet/templating. There is already a somewhat related issue at dotnet/templating#3654.

If you think the whole feature of top-level programs should be removed, then in theory, the right repo would be dotnet/csharplang. But since that feature is not really new (it has been released in C# 9.0 almost a year ago), I don't think a vote against it would have any effect at this point.

[tdykstra]

@svick The article asks for feedback as up/down votes on this issue -- see the Template feedback section, The reference is to using top-level statements in the new-project template, not to the top-level statements feature itself.