Is there any way, when installing a NuGet package. to not attach it to a project? E.g. if the package is content-only, I just want to install it per solution, not per project.
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I've created a windows service that uses Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects to install the service. The service was running fine until it needed the references from the Nuget package Microsoft.SqlServer.SqlManagementObjects
How do I add this package to the setup project so the references are available or can I simply install the nuget package on the target machine?
How do I add this package to the setup project so the references are available or can I simply install the nuget package on the target machine?
Since nuget does not support the setup project, so we could not add that nuget package to the setup project directly.
To resolve this issue, the most direct method is manually add the .dll files in nuget package to the setup project (Right click the setup project->Add->Assemble...->Browse).
If manually adding the .dll file is not what you want, you can add a blank library project to the setup solution, then add the that nuget package to the library project.
Add the Project Output of the library project to the setup project (Add->Project Output...->Primary output):
In this case, all the .dll files in the nuget package are available for your setup project.
Hope this helps.
I have a NuGet Package containing content files that is referenced in my project. When getting latest on a new machine, the build fails because NuGet Restore doesn't copy content files. So what I want to do is this:
In PreBuild
If my Content file doesn't exist,
run this nuget Command: "Update-Package My.Nuget.Sources -reinstall"
I'm struggling with determining path differences due to versioning of the Nuget files and getting access to nuget. How do I actually generate the SourceOnlyNugetVersion and NugetPath variables below?
if not exist "$(ProjectFolder)App_Packages\My.NuGet.Sources.$(SourceOnlyNugetVersion?)\somefile.cs" (
"$(NugetPath)nuget.exe" Update-Package My.NuGet.Sources -reinstall
)
How to resolve Nuget Package Version and Path in Pre-Build Event of a Project?
If you want to reinstall package automatically in Pre-build event, I am afraid you can`t achieve it currently.
We could use the command Update-Package -Id <package_name> –reinstall to reinstall the packages to your project in the Package Manager Console, but it is impossible to automate that.
If you want to automate it in the build event, you have to call the NuGet CLI rather than Package Manager Console. Because NuGet CLI does not modify a project file or packages.config; in this way it's similar to restore in that it only adds packages to disk but does not change a project's dependencies. See NuGet CLI reference.
The operation Install packages on NuGet CLI:
Conversely, operation Install packages on Package Manager:
Installs a package and its dependencies into a project.
So we could not use NuGet CLI to reinstall NuGet packages for project.
Besides, we could not use the Package manager console powershell outside visual studio, because package manager console is providing is access to visual studio objects.
https://github.com/NuGet/Home/issues/1512
Similarly, we could not use Package manager console in the build event, build events are run by MSBuild so it needs to work when the build is run from the command line.
So it seems impossible to automate reinstall NuGet packages, or the alternative approach would be to write a console app that uses NuGet.Core.dll to do the same thing that the PowerShell script is doing.
I modified a solution and deleted one of the .csproj files and instead packaged the .dlls into a NuGet package. Then I added the package to the two other .csproj files that reference the .dlls. All was good - it builds locally, but I can't get it to build on the build server. When I look at the code gotten out of TFS for the build I see that the packages.config for both projects have the correct reference to the NuGet package, but when I open the solution in VS the references have little yellow exclamation marks next to them because they're broken references. The only way I can get it to build is to open the NuGet CMI and execute Uninstall-package package-name and the Install-Package package-name. Then the references are good. When I look in the packages.config of the main project it contains the correct reference to the Package. So I've given up on getting TFS to correctly grab the package, but since Install-Package and Uninstall-Package are CMI commands only I can't automate that (or can I)? Does anyone know if a way that I could automate that to happen after the source is pulled from TFS but before the build?
The yellow exclamation marks issue should be related to the reference path. When you download the source from TFS to another location, the system cannot find the references as the original reference path changed.
So, you need to reinstall the package, you can use the NuGet command line in the Package Manager Console:
Update-Package -reinstall
since Install-Package and Uninstall-Package are CMI commands only I can't automate that (or can I)? Does anyone know if a way that I could automate that to happen after the source is pulled from TFS but before the build?
The simple answer is you can not automate that. You can use the command Install-Package and Uninstall-Package to reinstall the packages to your project in the Package Manager Console, but it seems impossible to automate that. Please forgive me for the lengthy explanation below.
First, we need to know the different the operation Install packages between NuGet CLI and Package Manager, although NuGet CLI and Package Manager both support the operation Install packages.
The operation Install packages on NuGet CLI:
Obviously, NuGet will not reinstall the references when you using the Install-packages operation on the NuGet CLI, just download the package to the packages folder. See NuGet CLI reference：
The install command does not modify a project file or packages.config;
in this way it's similar to restore in that it only adds packages to
disk but does not change a project's dependencies.
Conversely, operation Install packages on Package Manager:
Installs a package and its dependencies into a project.
If you want to automate that, you have to do this operations via NuGet CLI. Since Install package on NuGet CLI will not modify the reference of project, so we could not automate the operation install package to update the reference of the project.
Besides, we also do not recommend you automate that. Once you have automate that, NuGet execute the uninstall/install operations every time before you build the project. We only need to do an uninstall/install the operation after get the project from TFS. Even we do not need to do this operation if the references of the project are not broken after NuGet restore. So according to the reference of the project to determine whether or not to use an command:
Update-Package -reinstall
in the Package Manager Console should be the best choice.
I have added one of the package in the project through the nuget. The package automatically added a couple more packages to my project. I know those packages were dependent to the installing package. If I later on don't need the installed package, how do i safely remove the rest of the packages which dependent to it or does xamarin studio provide the command that can clean up those dependency.
E.g I installed the Google.Apis.CloudSpeechApi.v1beta1. It install the System.IO, System.Net and other System packages at the same time. If I removed the CloudSpeechApi package, those System packages still sitting in my Packages folder and not get cleaned up as well.
Is it possible to use nuget to install multiple packages at once? That is, both download all nuget packages listed in packages.config and add the packages to the .csproj file.
What I do now is to use the NuGet Package Manager in Visual Studio and install each package one by one, but is there an easier way?
EDIT:
This question is not solved by How do I get NuGet to install/update all the packages in the packages.config? as it only downloads and installes the packages to the packages directory, and does not change the project files.
If I run
nuget install packages.config
It will install all packages in the packages.config file, but not update the project file.
Could you try to run this from the package manager console in Visual Studio:
Update-Package –reinstall
That should fix missing assembly references in your *.csproj files, if the packages are already in your packages.config.