Developing two Nuget packages at the same time

Question

Suppose project A 1.0 depends on B 1.0 (each is it's own nuget package). I get these projects from source control, so after package restore A 1.0 has a dll reference to B 1.0 .

I want to develop A and B at the same time, and publish to Nuget with A 2.0 depending on B 2.0 .

How can I do this?

Note: I cant simply add A and B to a solution because A will still have a dll reference, and wont be updated when B updates. Also manually changing the dll reference to a project reference and changing it back before publishing seems laborious (especially with more projects).

Edit: I don't want to publish to the Nuget server until A and B have been fully developed to v2.

Answer 1

One thing you can do when developing nuget packages is using a fileshare as your own nuget server. you can look here https://docs.nuget.org/create/hosting-your-own-nuget-feeds how to make a feed from your local file system

Then you make sure that the build of B produces a nuget package, and put it in your own c:\\devenvironment\\nugetsnapshot directory.

After that you can just look at that directory for your nuget packages and you can develop A against a snapshot for B without publishing it.

Alternatively you could create your own development nuget server or mark snapshots as prerepeases so people know they might be broken