如何从类库项目和预编译视图创建NuGet包？

Question

I'm using MVC 5 on my Visual Studio 2017. My VS solution currently looks like this

• Solution
  • MVC App
  • Components (class library)
  • Custom view engine (class library)

Now I have created models in Components library. These models are used in MVC app views. I have configured MVC App to precompile views during publishing with "Merge all outputs to a single assembly" and marked "Treat as library component".

Components project is referenced to MVC app (to use it in views). Custom view engine is also referenced to MVC app (to mark (in AssemblyInfo) that this library contains custom views).

When I publish MVC app it compile all views to a single library.

But I want to create NuGet package from Components project and the views. How can I do it? Is there any option to automate this?

Answer 1

While NuGet has functionality to pack a project, it uses the compiler output, not the publisher output, and automatically adds all MSBuild Content types, which might not be desired in your case (I have no idea how precompiled views work).

Anyway, you can always create a .nuspec file and have it pack the output of the publish command. At the end of the docs page there are several complete examples of nuspec files.

It's been a long time since I worked on an ASP.NET project, but my memory is that MVC only automatically detects MVC controllers and razor views from the "main" assembly. If you have additional controllers or views in a project reference or a nuget package, you may need to register them.