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I have a C# solution which contains 3 projects; Application.Server, Application.Client, and Application.Common. Both server and client have a project reference to common.
I want to pack server and client up so that they can be used by other teams in my organisation. I have some automated build pipeline set up that do so, and they publish the nuget packages for server and client. They do not package or publish common. When I inspect the nuget packages, I can see that they reference the common package.
Is there a way that I can get them to build that project into them self? Ideally I don't want to publish the common package as it's pretty specific to my application, and it doesn't really make sense that it's something that's independently consumable by other departments. I also don't want to have to worry about wrangling extra nuget packages if I can help it (as in reality, Common is actually several projects).
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After you install a NuGet package, you can then make a reference to it in your code with the using <namespace> statement, where <namespace> is the name of package you're using. After you've made a reference, you can then call the package through its API.
Run the pack commandSelect the AppLogger project in Solution Explorer, and then select Build > Pack. Visual Studio builds the project and creates the . nupkg file. If you don't see the Pack command on the menu, your project is probably not an SDK-style project, and you need to use the NuGet CLI.
To manage your package sources, select the Settings icon or select Tools > Options. In the Options window, expand the NuGet Package Manager node and select Package Sources. To add a source, select +, edit the Name, enter the URL or path in Source, and then select Update.
If your projects are "old style"/non-SDK/traditional csproj, AND if any project uses a NuGet package, if all those NuGet references are defined using packages.config, then use you can use nuget.exe pack -IncludeReferencedProjects. However, if any of your projects use PackageReference to define their package references (new, SDK-style projects can only use PackageReference), then nuget.exe pack will not correctly create NuGet dependencies for those packages. For SDK style multi-targeting projects, nuget pack will probably completely fail.
The only supported way to pack projects that use PackageReference, or any SDK style project, is to use NuGet's MSBuild pack target (either dotnet pack or msbuild -t:pack). However, this does not have an equivalent to nuget.exe's IncludeReferencedProjects.
If your projects are SDK style, it really shouldn't be any more difficult to create and publish one package or many packages. Simply run dotnet pack on your solution, and every packable project gets packed (remember to mark any class library project you don't want to become a package as not packable). Then use your favourite scripting language to find and publish all nupkg files. For example (Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Filter *.nupkg $SLN_DIR | ForEach-Object { & dotnet nuget push $_ }, or copy/move all nupkgs to a single place (or use the appropriate setting to make NuGet create the packages there in the first place) and use dotnet nuget push *.nupkg.
The NuGet team recommends one package per assembly, and the tooling automatically creates NuGet dependencies for project references, so it all "just works" out of the box. To create a package with all the assemblies included, instead of NuGet dependencies, requires you to do a bunch of work.
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