core/release-notes/10.0/preview/preview2/sdk.md

.NET SDK in .NET 10 Preview 2 - Release Notes

Here's a summary of what's new in the .NET SDK in this preview release:

• More consistent command order

.NET SDK updates in .NET 10:

• What's new in .NET 10 documentation

More consistent command order

Starting in .NET 10, the dotnet CLI tool learned a few new aliases for commonly-used but often-forgotten commands. The new commands are:

• dotnet package add
• dotnet package list
• dotnet package remove
• dotnet reference add
• dotnet reference list
• dotnet reference remove

These commands exist in the current versions of the dotnet CLI, but they exist in verb-first forms: dotnet add package, dotnet list package, dotnet remove package, dotnet add reference, dotnet list reference, and dotnet remove reference. The new aliases are provided to make the commands easier to remember and type. Over the years, we have heard your feedback that the verb-first forms are not as intuitive as they could be, so we hope that these new aliases will help. Since the dotnet CLI was initially created, noun-first forms have become a general standard for CLI applications of all kinds, so we hope that this change will make the dotnet CLI more consistent with other CLI tools you use.

The verb-first forms will continue to work in .NET 10, but we recommend that you start using the noun-first forms to make your scripts and documentation more readable and easier to understand.