Package .NET Standard library as Nuget package and include all project dependencies / references

Question

When I try to use the built-in feature of creating Nuget packages in VS 2017 (for a .NET Standard class library), it doesn't include any dependencies (project references), it includes only the DLL of the current project...

Here is my project file:

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
.
.
  <PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFrameworks>netstandard1.6;net47</TargetFrameworks>
    <PreserveCompilationContext>true</PreserveCompilationContext>
    <PackageRequireLicenseAcceptance>False</PackageRequireLicenseAcceptance>
    <GeneratePackageOnBuild>True</GeneratePackageOnBuild>
    <IncludeBuildOutput>True</IncludeBuildOutput>
    <IncludeContentInPack>True</IncludeContentInPack>
    <DevelopmentDependency>False</DevelopmentDependency>
  </PropertyGroup>
 .
 .
 </Project>

I tried different values for: DevelopmentDependency, IncludeContentInPack, IncludeBuildOutput, and it is the same.

I tried also on VS 2017 preview release as well.

Answer 1

When I try to use the built-in feature of creating Nuget packages in VS 2017 (for a .NET Standard class library), it doesn't include any dependencies...

I aware of you want to pack nuget package include the referenced projects by Visual Studio 2017 directly. But I found that VS 2017 take the project references as dependencies when you pack package by VS 2017, I have not found a values to pack package include the referenced project as DLL file by VS directly.

As a workaround, you can use nuget and .nuspec file to include the referenced project, below is my .nuspec file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
  <package >
    <metadata>
      <id>MyTestNuGetPackage</id>
      <version>1.0.0</version>
      <authors>Test</authors>
      <owners>Test</owners>
      <requireLicenseAcceptance>false</requireLicenseAcceptance>
      <description>Package description</description>
      <releaseNotes>Summary of changes made in this release of the package.
      </releaseNotes>
      <copyright>Copyright 2017</copyright>
      <tags>Tag1 Tag2</tags>
    </metadata>

    <files>
      <file src="bin\Debug\netstandard1.6\MyTestNuGetPackage.dll" target="lib\netstandard1.6" />
      <file src="bin\Debug\netstandard1.6\ReferencedProject.dll" target="lib\netstandard1.6" />
      <file src="bin\Debug\net47\MyTestNuGetPackage.dll" target="lib\net47" />
      <file src="bin\Debug\net47\ReferencedProject.dll" target="lib\net47" />
    </files>
  </package>

Then use the command: nuget pack .nuspec to create the nuget package.

For the detail info, you can refer to the Create .NET standard packages.