Improve workload search help text to clarify version searching capability #50982
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Summary
Updates the workload search command description in the top-level
dotnet workload -h
help output to make it clear that users can search for both workloads and workload versions.Problem
The current help output only mentions searching for workloads:
However, the
dotnet workload search version
subcommand provides powerful functionality for searching workload sets and versions, which was not discoverable from the main help. Users had to know about this capability or stumble upon it by runningdotnet workload search -h
.Solution
Updated the
WorkloadSearchCommandDescription
resource string from:This change makes the version searching capability immediately discoverable when users run
dotnet workload -h
.Impact
The
dotnet workload search version
command provides three different search modes:These capabilities are now more discoverable thanks to the improved help text.
Fixes #50981
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