Status of dotnet tool Microsoft.dotnet-msidentity

[rido-min]

I found this tool via the webapi template: dotnet new webapi --auth, when used from VS it gets added to .config\dotnet-tools.json

{
  "version": 1,
  "isRoot": true,
  "tools": {
    "microsoft.dotnet-msidentity": {
      "version": "2.0.8",
      "commands": [
        "dotnet-msidentity"
      ],
      "rollForward": false
    }
  }
}

When I tried to use the tool I got

App: C:\.tools\.nuget\packages\microsoft.dotnet-msidentity\2.0.8\tools\net7.0\any\dotnet-msidentity.dll
Architecture: x64
Framework: 'Microsoft.NETCore.App', version '7.0.0' (x64)
.NET location: C:\Program Files\dotnet\

But we know that .NET7 is out of support.

My next step was to search for the repo, the nuget package points to https://github.com/dotnet/MSIdentityScaffolding (note it's private), and it was archived in 2021 while the latest version in NuGet 2.0.8 is from 2003.

This state raised some questions.

1. Is the tool still supported?
2. If yes, can we expect an update to follow LTS releases?
3. If not, should it be removed from the latest templates, and update the package as deprecated?

[danroth27]

The msidentity tool is used as part of the Add Connected Services experience in Visual Studio. The code now lives in the dotnet/scaffolding repo.

@JakeRadMSFT @sayedihashimi It looks like the msidentity tool may be in need of some updating.