Is there a way to automatically install a specific version of a Nuget Package at build time?

Question

I have some 3rd party DLL's i need migrating into a TFS Nuget Feed, and I haven't been able to find many articles on the internet about installing specific versions of a given Nuget Package at runtime, could anybody link me to some relevant material and/or provide some pointers to this effect?

Ideally this would be done as an MSBuild Target I think?

Thanks in Advance :)

Answer 1

To promote a cleaner development environment and to reduce repository size, NuGet Package Restore installs all referenced packages before a project is built. This widely-used feature ensures that all dependencies are available in a project without requiring those packages to be stored in source control (see Packages and Source Control on how to configure your repository to exclude package binaries).

This should help NuGet Package Restore

One of the topics

MSBuild-integrated restore in Visual Studio, for NuGet 2.6 and earlier.