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Feature request: provide default value for option (and show it in the help)

See original GitHub issue

Apologies if I’ve missed this one. I see in the examples you’re using conditionals to set default values, but what about providing something like

[Option(Description = "Verbosity",DefaultValue = 5)] so when an option is not required a default value is supplied - this could also be reflected in the help text so we’re following the Principle of Least Astonishment.

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meywdcommented, Sep 12, 2021

@natemcmaster First thank you for this library, its really helpful.

Regarding Default values, since this is in beta, I think the sample code at the front page shouldn’t include DefaultValue or at least add a comment saying that its in beta, to not confuse users.

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natemcmastercommented, Jan 18, 2021

This issue is resolved and available now in this beta: https://www.nuget.org/packages/McMaster.Extensions.CommandLineUtils/4.0.0-beta.56. Please take a look and let me know if you have feedback on its behavior.