在没有Visual Studio的项目中添加NuGet包

Question

I'm trying to automate adding NuGet packages to project on a remote server that doesn't have Visual Studio (nor any build servers) installed. I do know how to use NuGet.exe from my C# code, but this executable only downloads packages and doesn't do any other required work (adding references, executing ps scripts etc). What do I do in order to fully install a package?

Note: I don't need to update a package for my own app, I need to add a package to an arbitrary .csproj file on the server. I'm building a Web-based .Net IDE, and need my users to be able to add packages to their projects.

I see two possibilities: one is using some kind of functionality not present in NuGet.exe, but ratherin some other library (maybe a VS addin), but I don't know where to look for it. The other is to simulate some kind of NuGet Powershell console and send commands to it, but again, I don't know how to do that.

Answer 1

You might want to consider SharpDevelop .

Installing NuGet Packages outside of Visual Studio an article about the functionality you are trying to achieve (written by Matt Ward, one of the project contributors) says:

Since NuGet uses PowerShell the simplest approach was to extend the existing PowerShell cmdlets included with SharpDevelop. Now you can write a few lines of PowerShell script to install a NuGet package into a project that has never had a NuGet package before, have the project itself updated and any package PowerShell scripts run. All this from the command line without Visual Studio open.

Answer 2

Just to add an additional answer in-line with Alex's post about SharpDevelop, you have a couple different options.

• Use Nuget.exe ( Related Blog post )
• NuGet Addin for MonoDevelop and Xamarin Studio (see GitHub )
• ASP.NET Pages using WebMatrix (see this video )

All of this info is from the Nuget FAQ .