Hi Sayed here, this post is graciously authored by Shayne Boyer who is a member of the ASP.NET community that I've been working with lately. Enjoy.
Sourabh Shirhatti did a great write up on the use of yeoman and the ASP.NET generator for creating projects, http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2014/12/17/yeoman-generators-for-asp-net-vnext.aspx , but another advantage of yeoman is subgenerators for adding additional items to our project.
Creating a new Project To summarize, creating a quick “HelloWorldMvc” application is easy with the aspnet generator.
$ yo aspnet
You will get the response of what type of project you want to create. Notice that there is a new “Class Library” project type now as well.
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