VS2013构建不包括项目依赖项的Nuget依赖项的二进制文件

Question

I have a console app project (call it App) in a large solution that includes a library project (call it Lib) that my app needs to use.

App has a project reference to Lib and Lib has references to a number of Nuget packages. When the solution is built the binaries from the Nuget packages are included in the bin folder for Lib, but while the binary for Lib itself is included in the bin folder for App, the binaries from the Nuget packages it depends on are not.

This causes runtime errors in App when code in Lib attempts to reflect its dependencies.

Is there something I should be setting to ensure that Nuget dependencies of project dependencies are included? I can reference the Nuget packages directly in App but there are many of them and I would rather work out the correct way of ensuring that the dependencies are resolved.

Answer 1

You have three options:

1. Create a post-build event that copies all the binaries from Lib to App
2. Include references to all of the binaries that are required for App to run in the project.
3. Make Lib into a NuGet package and then use NuGet to manage the Lib dependency. All the binaries would be included.

Option 2 is my general approach, although a case could be made for any of these.