UtilityTemplates

Runneth Over Studio's .NET project templates (GUI / TUI) for in-house utilities.

Purpose

UtilityTemplates provides a curated set of .NET project templates used internally at Runneth Over Studio to rapidly scaffold small, purpose-built utilities with a consistent structure and engineering standards.

The goal is not to be generic or exhaustive, but idiomatic: to reflect how we actually design, build, and ship internal tools across platforms, and to remove friction from spinning up new utilities while keeping quality and consistency high.

The Templates

There is a template for a desktop GUI application (Avalonia) and a terminal user interface application (RazorConsole). Both templates contain:

• Samples - Basic business functionality and views to demonstrate usages and get running faster
• Cross-Platform - Runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux
• Three-Tier Architecture - Data → Business → Presentation layers
• MVVM Design Pattern - Presentation layer with clean separation of concerns using CommunityToolkit.Mvvm
• Dependency Injection - Built-in DI container for testable, maintainable code
• Convention-Based Routing - ViewModel driven navigation between views

This consistency allows developers to switch between GUI and TUI projects seamlessly, reusing skills and patterns across both.

Use

• Install all templates with one command

   dotnet new install RunnethOverStudio.UtilityTemplates

• List installed templates

    dotnet new list

• Use either template

  dotnet new ros.guiapp -n MyGuiApp
  dotnet new ros.tuiapp -n MyTuiApp

• Uninstall when needed

  dotnet new uninstall RunnethOverStudio.UtilityTemplates

Versioning

This project uses Semantic Versioning.

• MAJOR version: Incompatible API changes
• MINOR version: Backward-compatible functionality
• PATCH version: Backward-compatible bug fixes

Build Requirements

• All projects target the LTS version of the .NET SDK.

• The Build project uses Cake (C# Make) as the build orchestrator and can be launched from your IDE or via script.

  • On OSX/Linux run:

   ./build.sh

  • If you get a "Permission denied" error, you may need to make the script executable first:

   chmod +x build.sh

  • On Windows PowerShell run:

   ./build.ps1