I am hosting my own nuget server to download the packages. I have package which copies some dlls to the bin folder of the specified project. This all works fine.
Is there anyway to add references automatlically to the dll when installing the package?
Any assemblies placed in the lib target in your nuspec file will be automatically added as an assembly reference to the installed project.
<files>
<file src="MyAssembly.dll" target="lib\net40" />
</files>
Alternatively, you can specify what files need to be added as assembly references in the references element of the nuspec file, like so:
<references>
<reference file="MyAssembly.dll" />
</references>
See the NuSpec Reference for more details.
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I Create a NuGet package and install into another project. but don't copy a file into the location project. only my file reference to NuGet package and I change the code, The package also changes! I want to copy the package to the target project.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<package>
<metadata minClientVersion="3.3.0">
<id>MyPackage</id>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<authors>Meysam</authors>
<owners>Meysam</owners>
<requireLicenseAcceptance>false</requireLicenseAcceptance>
<description>Package description</description>
<releaseNotes>Summary of changes made in this release of the package.</releaseNotes>
<copyright>Copyright 2018</copyright>
<tags>Tag1 Tag2</tags>
<contentFiles>
<files include="cs/*.*/**" buildAction="Compile" />
</contentFiles>
</metadata>
<files>
<file src="ConsoleApp1\CustomClass\CustomClass.cs" target="contentFiles\cs\any\CustomClass" />
</files>
</package>
Copying files into the project that uses a nuget package is only supported when using packages.config, which isn't supported by SDK-style projects, which are required for .NET Core projects. As your screenshots show, contentFiles in PackageReferences projects are included at build time. The little arrow icon in the bottom right corner of the C# and folder icons you pointed to in your screenshot are visual indicators that the file and folder are different to the other files and folders in your project. In fact, that little icon overlay is similar to what Windows adds for shortcuts, so if you understand a shortcut is a file that "points to" another file, it should make sense that these are shortcuts to files outside your project, but are included as part of your project.
Anyway, it's working as designed.
You'll need to find another way to do whatever you want, but you didn't describe why you're trying to include a file in the project that references your package, so I can't give direct advice. My best advice, if you are experienced with ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core is think about how ASP.NET used to read a lot of settings directly from web.config, but ASP.NET Core instead uses a builder pattern, so that users are not forced to store settings in web.config and can store settings anywhere they want. If what you're doing is similar, your package users will have a better experience if you provide them with a configuration builder that they can override, rather than having a file in their project that they must edit and gets overwritten every time they upgrade to a new version of your package.
Cannot copy folder with nuget package in .net core
Yes, just like zivkan said:
Copying files into the project that uses a nuget package is only
supported when using packages.config
But, we could use a workaround to resolve this issue. We could add a copy task in the xx.targets file, and set this file in the \build folder in the .nuspec file.
The content of mypackage.targets file:
<Target Name="CopyFile" AfterTargets="AfterBuild">
<ItemGroup>
<CopyFiles Include="$(NuGetPackageRoot)\mypackage\4.0.0\cs\*.*\**" />
</ItemGroup>
<Copy
SourceFiles="#(CopyFiles)"
DestinationFolder="$(ProjectDir)"
/>
</Target>
And the .nuspec file:
<file src="xxx\xxx\mypackage.targets" target="build" />
Hope this helps.
I need to create a Nuget package out of my library .net framework project.
The problem is that my project depends on many other dlls which I do not want my Nuget users to see. So I want people to install my package and see only my project dll in the references list, while all its dependencies will be added to bin folder only.
Actually, this is what happens when I reference this dll in any project- I can see it in my references list, and all its dependencies are simply copied to bin folder right after building. Can this behaviour be achieved with this project as Nuget ?
Create a Nuget package without its dependencies to be added as references
Since you do not want your Nuget users to see the other dlls, so you can not set those dlls file as dependencies, which will be added to the references list by default.
To resolve this issue, we need add those dlls file in the other folder in the .nuspec file and add a function to copy this dlls file to the bin folder when we add this nuget package to the project. You can follow below steps:
Add a xx.targets file in your project folder(The one you used to create nuget package ), make sure the name of the target file is the same name as the package id(TestDemo is my package ID, so the name of .targets is TestDemo.targets).
Add below code in the targets file:
<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<ItemGroup>
<None Include="$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)*.dll">
<CopyToOutputDirectory>Always</CopyToOutputDirectory>
</None>
</ItemGroup>
</Project>
Note: The path of "$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)" should be relative path, if you are not familiar with it, you can use the absolute path.
In the nuspec file, add required file to the Build directory along with the targets file.
<files>
<file src="<ThoseDllsPath>\*.dll" target="Build\" />
<file src="TestDemo.targets" target="Build\" />
<file src="bin\Debug\TestDemo.dll" target="lib\462" />
</files>
Pack this package, then add it on other project to test, it work fine.
Hope this helps.
I tried the solution of Leo Liu-MSFT. It worked in a .NET Framework Project, but not in a .NET Core 3.0
If you're using packages.config to manage your library's NuGet dependencies and building the nupkg with nuget.exe pack, then I believe you'll need to generate your own nuspec file and simply not add your build-time dependencies as a dependency to your package.
If you're using PackageReference, then you can use PrivateAssets
<ItemGroup>
<!-- ... -->
<PackageReference Include="Contoso.Utility.UsefulStuff" Version="3.6.0">
<PrivateAssets>all</PrivateAssets>
</PackageReference>
<!-- ... -->
</ItemGroup>
When I nuget pack a web project I want to specify custom unpack locations for content and maintain project dependency metadata.
Given the following manually created example nuspec file:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<package>
<metadata>
<id>Web.MyApp</id>
<version>1.0</version>
<title>Web.MyApp</title>
<authors>Chris</authors>
<requireLicenseAcceptance>false</requireLicenseAcceptance>
<description>Nuget package containing files for Web.MyApp</description>
<releaseNotes>release notes</releaseNotes>
<copyright>Copyright Chris 2017</copyright>
<tags />
<dependencies />
</metadata>
<files>
<file src="bin\**\*.*" target="bin" />
<file src="views\**\*.*" target="views" />
<file src="content\" target="content" />
<file src="scripts\" target="scripts" />
<file src="Global.asax" target="" />
<file src="*.config" target="" />
</files>
</package>
This allows me to specify custom unpack locations for bin, content, sprint folders etc but I want the project dependency metadata to be automatically maintained. I don't want to edit the nupsec each time a new dependency is referenced.
As an attempt to resolve this problem I tried to nuget pack the csproj file instead of the nuspec. This maintained the dependency metadata however it made specifying content unpack locations much trickier. I can do the following:
<Content Include="Content\dist\images\brand-logo.svg">
<Pack>true</Pack>
<PackagePath>Content\Content\dist</PackagePath>
</Content>
But I couldn't find an elegant solution for the bin folder. I just feel like I'm doing something fundamentally wrong.
So my question is, how can I automatically maintain project dependency metadata when creating a nuget package from a manually created nuspec file?
The pack command I am using:
..\tools\nuget\nuget.exe pack $project + ".nuspec" -IncludeReferencedProjects -
Properties Configuration=Release -Verbosity quiet -NonInteractive -
OutputDirectory "$packagedirectory" -Version $buildVersion -Symbols
Automatically add project dependency metadata to manually created nuspec file
If I understand you correct, I am afraid you have already automatically add project dependency metadata to manually created .nuspec file. You just need to rebuild the project and re-pack the .nuspec file.
When you include the referenced files with wildcard, it will contain the new added project references:
<file src="bin\**\*.*" target="bin" />
Add a new project reference to the project, then re-build the project, the dll file of referenced project will be copied to the \bin folder, So we just need to re-pack the .nuspec file, the referenced project metadata will included in the new created package.
For example, add a Atest reference project to Web.MyApp project, then rebuild the project and re-pack the .nuspec file:
If I misunderstand you, please let me know for free.
We moved NuGet's packages folder to some other place and created a NuGet.Config file at the slns level:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<config>
<add key="repositoryPath" value="../.nugetPackages" />
</config>
</configuration>
We also have this in few of our csproj files:
<Import Project="..\..\..\Proj\packages\Microsoft.Azure.DocumentDB.1.7.1\build\Microsoft.Azure.DocumentDB.targets" Condition="Exists('..\..\..\Proj\packages\Microsoft.Azure.DocumentDB.1.7.1\build\Microsoft.Azure.DocumentDB.targets')" />
<Target Name="EnsureNuGetPackageBuildImports" BeforeTargets="PrepareForBuild">
<PropertyGroup>
<ErrorText>This project references NuGet package(s) that are missing on this computer. Use NuGet Package Restore to download them. For more information, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=322105. The missing file is {0}.</ErrorText>
</PropertyGroup>
<Error Condition="!Exists('..\..\..\Proj\packages\Microsoft.Azure.DocumentDB.1.7.1\build\Microsoft.Azure.DocumentDB.targets')" Text="$([System.String]::Format('$(ErrorText)', '..\..\..\Proj\packages\Microsoft.Azure.DocumentDB.1.7.1\build\Microsoft.Azure.DocumentDB.targets'))" />
</Target>
And this too:
<Import Project="..\..\packages\PostSharp.4.2.17\tools\PostSharp.targets" Condition="Exists('..\..\packages\PostSharp.4.2.17\tools\PostSharp.targets')" />
<Target Name="EnsurePostSharpImported" BeforeTargets="BeforeBuild" Condition="'$(PostSharp30Imported)' == ''">
<Error Condition="!Exists('..\..\packages\PostSharp.4.2.17\tools\PostSharp.targets')" Text="This project references NuGet package(s) that are missing on this computer. Enable NuGet Package Restore to download them. For more information, see http://www.postsharp.net/links/nuget-restore." />
<Error Condition="Exists('..\..\packages\PostSharp.4.2.17\tools\PostSharp.targets')" Text="The build restored NuGet packages. Build the project again to include these packages in the build. For more information, see http://www.postsharp.net/links/nuget-restore." />
</Target>
My question is how to deal with such relative package paths in the csproj files to keep things generic (so we could easily move the package folder anytime anywhere)?
Is there maybe some variable we can use like $NuGetPackagesDir or something like that?
(We use Vs2015, NuGet 5.3 and TeamCity build server [I don't remember current version..])
You cannot really have a generic path and still use the NuGet tooling within Visual Studio since when you update a package the hint path will be updated by NuGet back to a relative path if you are using a packages.config file.
Whilst you could specify a global packages folder the hint paths will be relative to that path depending on where you put the solution.
The hint path problem goes away when you use a project.json file or have a new .NET Core style project that uses PackageReference elements in the .csproj file. If you are using a packages.config file then your .csproj file will have hint paths pointing to assemblies within the packages folder.
This link How do I create an XML Intellisense file for my DLL? explains how to build your dlls so that an XML file is included containing all your documentation headers so that they are available in those IntelliSense popups.
In my company we frequently distribute our own dlls using an internal NuGet package source. When I create NuGet packages for the package source, how do I ensure that someone else gets the dll from the package source, IntelliSense displays the documentation headers for them?
If you distribute your XML files with your NuGet package in the same folder as your Dlls then Visual Studio will then find these XML files and show IntelliSense for your assemblies.
To distribute the IntelliSense XML files you will need to add them to your .nuspec file, for example:
<files>
<file src="bin\IronPython.dll" target="lib\Net40" />
<file src="bin\IronPython.xml" target="lib\Net40" />
</files>
tl;dr documentation files need to be .xml not .XML
I was able to get the XML files included by first enabling the production using the Build tab, checking XML Documentation File in the Output section. Note: for some reason I had to manually change the extension from .XML to lowercase .xml. YMMV. This is the same as the question you referenced, How do I create an XML Intellisense file for my DLL?.
Once done, I created the Nuspec file in the project directory. Here's a sample, you can also generate it with nuget spec MyAssembly.dll - but make sure to edit it and set the values appropriately.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<package >
<metadata>
<id>$id$</id>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<title>Title for your package</title>
<authors>Package Author</authors>
<owners>Package Owner</owners>
<requireLicenseAcceptance>false</requireLicenseAcceptance>
<description>A description of your library</description>
<releaseNotes>Release notes for this version.</releaseNotes>
<copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright>
<tags>tag1 tag2</tags>
</metadata>
</package>
Once that was done, I used Nuget to package. Note I had to specify the platform because I'm using a 64-bit OS, but I don't have any targets in the project for x64, only AnyCPU
nuget pack MyAssembly.csproj -Prop Configuration=Release;Platform=AnyCPU -build
The assembly and it's associated documentation were automatically included in the package. In addition any packages that you've used in your project are added to the dependency list.
See http://docs.nuget.org/docs/creating-packages/creating-and-publishing-a-package for more information.