🎯 .NET Cursor Rules

A collection of Cursor AI rules for .NET development best practices.

How to Use This Repository

Copy the relevant rules you want to use into your project's .cursor/rules directory OR add them as global rules in the Cursor IDE.

📚 Available Rule Sets

📦 NuGet Package Publishing

Rules for publishing high-quality NuGet packages:

• 📄 License configuration best practices
• 📚 Package documentation requirements
• 🏷️ Metadata organization guidelines
• 🔍 Source debugging and symbol package setup
• 🔗 Dependency management recommendations
• 🔢 Versioning conventions
• 🚀 Build and pack commands

🛠️ .NET Tool Management

Rules for working with .NET CLI tools:

• 📦 Publishing tools as NuGet packages
• 🔧 Consuming tools in projects
• 🔄 Managing tool versions and updates
• ✨ Best practices for tool development

🔄 CI/CD

Rules for build and deployment processes:

• 🏗️ Build system configuration and best practices
• 📝 Release management and versioning
• 🔐 Code signing and security
• 🚀 Pipeline configuration (GitHub Actions & Azure DevOps)
• 📦 Package publishing

🎛️ .NET SDK Management

Rules for managing .NET solutions and dependencies:

• 🎯 SDK version control and configuration
• 🏗️ Solution-wide build properties
• 📦 NuGet package management
• 🔒 Security and license compliance
• 🚀 Build and dependency automation

💻 C# Development

Rules for writing clean, maintainable C# code:

• ✨ Modern C# coding patterns
• 🧪 Testing best practices
• 📁 Code organization
• 🛡️ Error handling
• 🔌 Dependency management

⚡ Benchmarking

Rules for performance testing and benchmarking:

• 📊 BenchmarkDotNet usage
• 🧮 Memory and allocation analysis
• 📈 Performance regression testing
• 💪 Hardware optimizations
• 🔄 CI/CD integration

🚀 Usage

These rules are designed to be used with Cursor, providing AI-powered guidance for .NET development. Each rule set contains:

• 📖 Detailed best practices
• 🛠️ Example configurations
• 🔒 Security considerations
• 🔧 Maintenance guidelines

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

📄 License

Copyright 2010-2025 Aaron Stannard Licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.