Mastering Visual Studio 2017

Creating a .NET Core class library

To create a .NET Core class library project, we need to use the same command, dotnet new, but with a class library type project template, whose short name is classlib. Let's navigate to the folder (in our case, it's D:\DotNetCore) in the console window and enter the following command:

    dotnet new classlib -n "CustomLibrary" -lang C#  

This will create a C# project named CustomLibrary.csproj and a C# class file, Class1.cs, in a directory named CustomLibrary under the current directory: