# Using Aurelia CLI with Visual Studio - A solution

**URL:** <https://discourse.aurelia.io/t/using-aurelia-cli-with-visual-studio-a-solution/2145>\
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**Created:** [January 20, 2019, 5:40pm UTC](https://discourse.aurelia.io/t/using-aurelia-cli-with-visual-studio-a-solution/2145 "2019-01-20T17:40:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![constructor](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/discourse.aurelia.io/constructor/32/710_2.png) [@constructor](https://discourse.aurelia.io/u/constructor)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 5:40pm UTC](https://discourse.aurelia.io/t/using-aurelia-cli-with-visual-studio-a-solution/2145/1 "2019-01-20T17:40:15Z")

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Here is a git repo containing a modified for Visual Studio, CLI generated Aurelia project with the following settings:

1 Webpack  
1 HTTP/1.1  
1 Web (Default)  
2 Typescript  
1 No markup processing  
1 No css processing  
1 No testing  
1 No integration testing  
5 No editor options  
1 Yes - Create the project structure…  
1 Yes - Use Yarn

> **[constructor/aurelia-wp-ts-noproc-v1.0.0-beta.10](https://github.com/constructor/aurelia-wp-ts-noproc-v1.0.0-beta.10)**
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> Contribute to constructor/aurelia-wp-ts-noproc-v1.0.0-beta.10 development by creating an account on GitHub.

It is a plain Aurelia ‘web’ project with no bias towards any IDE. I have taken this as a starting point and made the absolute minimum changes required to make it work (as I wanted it to work) in Visual Studio 2017.

**So how do I use it?**

Well… here is another git repo that has an example Visual Studio generated dotnet core 2.2.0 MVC app with the contents of the earlier repository layered over it.

> **[constructor/aurelia-wp-ts-noproc-v1.0.0-beta.10-MVC-2.2.0](https://github.com/constructor/aurelia-wp-ts-noproc-v1.0.0-beta.10-MVC-2.2.0)**
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> Contribute to constructor/aurelia-wp-ts-noproc-v1.0.0-beta.10-MVC-2.2.0 development by creating an account on GitHub.

With this I can now create an MVC project from within Visual Studio and then add to that the Aurelia goodness. In each repo there are only 2 or 3 commits each with a short note of what happened, but it should be as simple as this:

1. Create an MVC Visual Studio project as usual.
2. Copy into this project the contents of the Aurelia CLI generated project ([https://github.com/constructor/aurelia-wp-ts-noproc-v1.0.0-beta.10](https://github.com/constructor/aurelia-wp-ts-noproc-v1.0.0-beta.10))
3. ‘yarn install’ and ‘au build’.
4. Create a controller and view to act as a home for the Aurelia app. This view will use the Layout\_App.cshtml generated by the Aurelia build (\_Layout\_App.cshtml.ejs).
5. CTRL-F5 and browse to the controller to see the Aurelia app.

**So what is this for?**

So I can get around [the issues highlighted here](https://discourse.aurelia.io/t/using-aurelia-cli-with-visual-studio-again/2134/10) and show it should be possible to use the CLI to modify a template generated by Visual Studio, rather than or as well as generating a template in code, inside the CLI itself.