有没有一种从Visual Studio 2015项目自动创建NuGet包的简单方法？

Question

Before Visual Studio 2015, it was trivial to setup your project to automatically generate NuGet packages. Specifically, you did:

1. Add a .nuspec file to your project
2. Enable NuGet Package Restore in the Solution right-click context menu
3. Edit the project .csproj file and set the build property <BuildPackage> to true

And that was it!

However, starting from VS 2015, MSBuild-integrated package restore has been removed and replaced by the new Automatic Package Restore. While these are all good news, it seems that setting the build property <BuildPackage> to true no longer triggers an automatic package build.

This is a major break of functionality! Is there a way to setup automatic builds of NuGet without using post-build events? Specifically, I'm looking for an MSBuild solution, as it forms the backbone of my build workflow.

Answer 1

Try OctoPack: https://www.nuget.org/packages/OctoPack/

Just add nuget package to your project.

If you want to build it every time you build release, add to section <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Release|Whatever' "> next line:

 <RunOctoPack>true</RunOctoPack>

More information about finetuning can be found here: https://github.com/OctopusDeploy/OctoPack

Answer 2

There is a move to Class Library Packages in VS2015 which makes it incredibly easy to create NuGet packages. I've blogged about this before, but essentially it's just a few steps. Note that this is just a RC1 at the moment and not a stable release yet.

1. Install the ASP.NET and Web Tools 2015 (RC1 Update 1) update to VS2015.

2. Open VS2015 and create a new Class Library Package project.

3. Add your code to the library and configure the project.json file with any changes you may need. A default project.json file is used as an example.

4. Right-click on the project and select the Properties menu item. In the Build tab select “Produce outputs on build”. Build the project.

You're done. Go to the artifacts folder in your project, in my case “artifacts\\bin\\AwesomeSoft.TextConverter\\Debug”.

You should see the NuGet package already created, and the folders targeting each framework specified earlier.

Answer 3

There is another alternative called NuPack :

How-to-create-a-nuget-package-on-each-Visual-Studio-with-NuPack

It is a nuget package that automatically generate nuget package on build time.

Answer 4

VS4MAc already supports this and you can get it as a extension for VS on Windows

https://github.com/NuGet/NuGet.Build.Packaging