I'm working on a .NET Core solution. For one of the projects within the solution, I need to build a Nuget package.
Project A has a reference to another project B in the solution, set up as a project reference. Project B has a dependency on a Nuget package C.
Now, when I create a Nuget package for A, it includes A.dll and B.dll but not C.dll
Can someone help me figure this out? How can I include all 3 .dlls?
Thanks,
Andy
You can certainly solve this by creating your own nuspec file. I am not sure how to do it within the context of the csproj file.
For example, with #csla we manage all our own nuspec files because there are so many moving parts.
Within a nuspec file you can list the specific files you want included, along with any package dependencies. So in your example it sounds like your nuspec would include the project A and B assemblies, so something like this:
<files>
<file src="..\..\bin\Release\netstandard\netstandard2.1\**\A.dll" target="lib\netstandard2.1" />
<file src="..\..\bin\Release\netstandard\netstandard2.1\**\B.dll" target="lib\netstandard2.1" />
</files>
And would declare the dependency to package C.
<dependencies>
<group targetFramework="netstandard2.1">
<dependency id="C" version="1.0.0" />
</group>
</dependencies>
You can see numerous examples in the #csla repo. Perhaps the closest (not using wildcards) is the Csla.Blazor.nuspec file.
See https://github.com/NuGet/Home/issues/3891 for the feature request for dotnet.exe pack to the nuget client team. There are workarounds and debates in that issue.
Thx, Rob Relyea, NuGet Client Team
Related
I have three projects I'm building
FooBar.Abstractions
FooBar.AspNetCore
FooBar.AspNetCore.IntegrationTesting
The FooBar.AspNetCore and the FooBar.AspNetCore.IntegrationTesting projects both have references to FooBar.Abstractions. I want to package and ship all three of these as individual NuGet packages.
I started with a NuGet.config file that looks like this locally:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<packageSources>
<add key="aspnetcore_abstractions" value="./src/FooBar.Abstractions/bin/Debug/" />
</packageSources>
</configuration>
Then I add the package to my projects
<ItemGroup>
<PackageReference Include="FooBar.Abstractions" Version="2.0.0-preview1" />
<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Abstractions" Version="2.2.0" />
</ItemGroup>
This really sucks though as each time I make a change in the FooBar.Abstractions project I have to go into my C:\.nuget\packages folder and delete the cache before my FooBar.AspNetCore project can restore the newly compiled version from my solution.
If I just add FooBar.Abstractions as a project reference, and then I ship the two packages to NuGet.org, how does that affect users that install the two packages across different projects in their solutions. Does NuGet and .Net figure it all out, knowing that they're the same referenced assembly? I assume in this case the FooBar.AspNetCore project will ship with the FooBar.Abstractions.dll in it if I add it as a project reference.
I don't know if that causes conflicts knowing that the package ships that .dll, then a customer installs the Abstractions package explicitly that contains the same .dll.
How do you handle this with NuGet packaging with the newest versions of NuGet? How do I constrain FooBar.AspNetCore to use the same FooBar.Abstractions.dll version between the package reference and the NuGet package others will install? I can't force PackageReference Include="FooBar.Abstractions" Version="2.2" if I'm adding it as a project reference instead can I?
When you pack a project with at project reference, NuGet converts the project reference into a NuGet dependency. It figures out the dependency version based on what version that project would be if it were packed. There is no need to use PackageReference when packing. As you discovered/explained, doing so makes local development much more difficult.
Therefore the solution to your problem is to just use ProjectReference when the projects are in the same source code repository.
I have a Dotnet Core 2.1 project which has both a nuspec and a csproj file - one major hassle is that the csproj describes dependencies like this:
<ItemGroup>
<PackageReference Include="Refit" Version="4.6.16" />
<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.All" Version="2.1" />
<PackageReference Include="Refit.HttpClientFactory" Version="4.6.16" />
</ItemGroup>
While the nuspec does this:
<dependencies>
<dependency id="Refit" version="4.6.16" />
<dependency id="Refit.HttpClientFactory" version="4.6.16" />
<dependency id="Microsoft.AspNetCore.All" version="2.1" />
</dependencies>
Both are easily out of sync and keeping the same information twice is annoying.
Is there a way to avoid that?
There is certain to be a easy way for this, just use dotnet pack instead of nuget pack and .csproj files instead of .nuspec files.
dotnet pack supports 2 ways to specify the nuget package properties.
The legacy way: using .nuspec file, which would disable the 2nd way
The new way: specifying them in .csproj file
dotnet pack supports both ways but you must add a NuspecFile property to reference the .nuspec file and there are a lot of bugs and feature missings for the legacy way, which means you can only use the new one.
dotnet pack executes restore and build on the project and packs it with a automatically generated .nuspec file resolving all nuget metadata properties in .csproj as .nuspec properties and all projects references as nuget package references (This is not available with manually specified .nuspec file), so that versioning, dependency, and package file structure things can be automatically ensured.
My own library could be an example. Version and dependency things are specified for only once at where they are supposed to be and there are no longer any annoying duplicate configurations. Executing dotnet pack on the solution directory would generate all good .nupkgs on the dist directory.
So I feel like I have come to the end of the rope here, but hoping someone knows more than I do here. I have some Typescript files, though that is mostly irrelevant as I am having this problem with all content files.
I am able to generate a nuget, or more precisely dotnet pack, nuget package that includes my content files in the package by using this in the .csproj of my parent project:
<ItemGroup>
<Content Include="Scripts\Utility.ts">
<Pack>true</Pack>
<PackagePath>contentFiles\Scripts\;content\Scripts</PackagePath>
</Content>
</ItemGroup>
I can browse the generated .nupkg and see that indeed the file was added to the package in both the content\Scripts and contentFiles\Scripts locations
The problem is that whenver I consume this package in my 'child' progect, that Typescript never gets copied into any folder of the child project, though I can see it extracted in the .nuget\packages\parent\... folders.
At first I thought it was something with my initial settings in the parent project, and it may be, but after trying what seems like everything in the book, that fails to copy the content files to the child project. I then tried going the dark path of trying to use Init.ps1 in the tools folder of my package, and though it was impossible to debug, it also seemed to run sporatically (I completely unistalled and reinstalled the package and it still failed to run most of the time.) This could be the way but I don't know why I can't get it to output to the Package Manager Console... maybe there's still hope with Init.ps1 but I can't seem to figure it out. Finally I see some potential with a nuget .targets file but I can's seem to grasp how to use it for my purpose either! I would love some feedback as to how to get this done.
From: Announcing NuGet 3.1 with Support for Universal Windows Platform
Importing content from a Nuget package was depreciated for projects using a project.json file in Nuget v3.1. Since then the project.json file has been dropped in favour of the new .csproj format. Importing content from a Nuget package should still work though if you're using the packages.config file instead.
Also mentioned is the fact that there are other package managers available for delivering content.
It looks to me like the answer in the new world is to create a node module containing utility.js and let npm deliver it to your project.
Possible Workaround:
I've looked at .targets to copy files and got this working, but it does run on each build - which may or may not be a problem for you. I can't do what I want with it.
In [PackageId].targets:
<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<!-- Either do this for all scripts in the Scripts/js folder -->
<Target Name="CopyScriptsToProject" BeforeTargets="Build">
<Message Text="Copying scripts to project" />
<ItemGroup>
<SourceScripts Include="$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)..\..\content\Scripts\js\**\*.*"/>
</ItemGroup>
<Copy SourceFiles="#(SourceScripts)" DestinationFiles="#(SourceScripts -> '$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\wwwroot\js\%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(Extension)')" Condition="!Exists('$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\wwwroot\js\%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(Extension)')" />
</Target>
<!-- Or do this for the individual script -->
<Target Name="CopyUtilityScriptToProject" BeforeTargets="Build">
<Copy SourceFiles="$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)..\..\content\Scripts\js\Utility.js" DestinationFiles="$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\wwwroot\js\Utility.js" Condition="!Exists('$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\wwwroot\js\Utility.js')" />
</Target>
</Project>
<!-- Note: condition can be removed from either if you want it to overwrite each build -->
and in the .csproj file (replacing [PackageId] with the name of your package):
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
... any Globals for source control stuff ...
<PropertyGroup>
<TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.0</TargetFramework>
<Version>7.0.0</Version>
<PackageId>[PackageId]</PackageId>
</PropertyGroup>
... any PackageReference stuff ...
<ItemGroup Label="Packaging">
<Content Include="build\netcoreapp2.0\[PackageId].targets" PackagePath="build\netcoreapp2.0\[PackageId].targets" />
<!-- Either -->
<Content Include="Scripts\js\**\*.*" PackagePath="content\Scripts\js;contentFiles\Scripts\js" />
<!-- or -->
<Content Include="Scripts\js\Utility.js" PackagePath="content\Scripts\js;contentFiles\Scripts\js" />
</ItemGroup>
</Project>
There seemed to be a bug whereby when the <PackageId>[PackageId]</PackageId> wasn't set explicitly in the .csproj, the build targets didn't work. Although that may well be an issue with my development environment.
Apparently you need the any\any in the path (learn more) as well as to include <PackageCopyToOutput>true</PackageCopyToOutput>, like this:
<ItemGroup>
<Content Include="Scripts\js\Utility.js">
<Pack>true</Pack>
<PackagePath>contentFiles\any\any\wwwroot\js\;content\any\any\wwwroot\js\</PackagePath>
<PackageCopyToOutput>true</PackageCopyToOutput>
</Content>
</ItemGroup>
You'll also need to precompile your TypeScript before including the .js files in the package
However, this still doesn't create a file there, just some strange reference to it.
In the end, we got it working with a .targets file, you can find a working repo here: https://github.com/NuGet/Home/issues/6743
Serj Sagan's answer got me on the right track, but it wasn't sufficient to deploy the content file to the bin directory (as he noted). I was able to get the file to be deployed by changing the package reference options in the consuming project's .csproj file, as follows:
<PackageReference Include="MyNuGetPackage" Version="0.0.0.1">
<IncludeAssets>all</IncludeAssets>
<PrivateAssets>analyzers;build</PrivateAssets>
</PackageReference>
It seems like the default for PrivateAssets is contentfiles;analyzers;build (documentation), which is not what we want in this case.
Simplified code and explanation from #PurplePiranha
TL;DR:
Basic .NET6 simplified sample code on Github
Step by Step guide
Selection of the files
First we need to select all the files that needs to get into the nuget package.
Add this to the <LibraryPackageName>.csproj:
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
...
<ItemGroup Label="Packaging">
<Content Include="<Your directory path>\<your file(s)>" />
</ItemGroup>
Multiple content lines are allowed.
Write a target
Make a target file to copy the files before (or after) the build to the bin directory:
The location and name of this file is important:
<root>\build\<LibraryPackageName>.targets
Now, make sure that it will get executed by referencing it in the <LibraryPackageName>.csproj by adding a content line:
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
...
<ItemGroup Label="Packaging">
<Content Include="build\<LibraryPackageName>.targets" PackagePath="build\<LibraryPackageName>.targets" />
<Content Include="filesToAdd\*.txt">
<Pack>true</Pack>
</Content>
</ItemGroup>
Eg: From the code in github:
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
...
<ItemGroup Label="Packaging">
<Content Include="build\PackageToGenerateFile.targets" PackagePath="build\PackageToGenerateFile.targets" />
<Content Include="filesToAdd/*.txt">
<Pack>true</Pack>
</Content>
</ItemGroup>
NOTE: By copying the files to the bin directory, the files are not part of your version control, but your package is!
Build and pack
In Visual Studio, right-click on the package name and select "Pack".
A new nuget package should be created in the bin directory of your library.
Use the nuget package
Install the nuget package now in your destination package.
Notice that the files are in the solution explorer, but not in a directory on your disk. They have a shortcut symbol.
Build the destination package
Check the bin directory.
The files should be copied to the location mentioned in the targets.
ASP.NET Framework 4.7
I have some Class Libraries in my project. And one of them has my nuget package.
For example :
A Class Library project has NugetPackage1
B Class Library has A as reference.
How can i get NugetPackage1's classes in B Class Library ?
I created my nuget package my own by using this :
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<package >
<metadata>
<id>...</id>
...
...
</metadata>
<files>
<file src="Release\My.Nuget.Package.dll" target="lib\net47"></file>
</files>
</package>
<!-- There have been created a nuget package. -->
<!-- lib\net47 folder is empty. Is this true ? -->
It’s actually all there, built into NuGet/Visual Studio.
1-Select the solution in solution explorer
2-Right mouse click and select Manage NuGet Packages for solution…
3-Select Installed packages
4-Locate the package that’s already installed
5-Click the Manager button
6-Now simply locate your new project and tick the checkbox next
7-Click OK.
for more details see this: http://putridparrot.com/blog/how-to-reference-an-existing-nuget-package-from-a-new-project/
I have a couple packages that include content files (an example would be the wurfl package for getting device data from a user agent, it includes it's database file in the nuget package marked as content).
When adding these packages in an asp.net 5 setting, the content doesn't get added anywhere.
Where or how do I get at the content of these nuget packages added to my solution?
http://blog.nuget.org/20150729/Introducing-nuget-uwp.html
Deprecated Features
Starting with NuGet 3.1 when using project.json, we are deprecating support for executing the install.ps1/uninstall.ps1 scripts and delivering elements in the /content folder of packages. Installing packages that have these elements will not execute the install.ps1 file and will not copy content to your project.
Read the link for more on why...
This is an old question, but my even so old solution seems to work still for Net 5. Here it is:
Include a YourPacakgeName.targets file in your package like this:
<file src="YourPacakgeName.targets" target="build" />
The content of the .targets file should then be:
<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<ItemGroup>
<MySourceFiles Include="$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)..\Content\**\*.*"/>
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="CopyFiles" BeforeTargets="Build" AfterTargets="Clean">
<Copy
SourceFiles="#(MySourceFiles)"
DestinationFolder="$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\%(RecursiveDir)"
SkipUnchangedFiles="true"
/>
</Target>
</Project>
Effectively this copies the content files before a build and after a clean action.