Add references Visual Studio 2010 (NuGet)

Question

I am trying to use some references in Visual Studio, I have installed NuGet to use some libraries.

Is there a way to use only part of the package installed with NuGet? For example, if I am using TeklaOpenApi and the following .dll files are installed with this package:

• TeklaModel
• TeklaDialog
• TeklaDrawing

Use for example just TeklaModel, could I do this using NuGet?

Answer 1

Is there a way to use only part of the package installed with NuGet?

I am afraid that you cannot get what you want. It is designed by nuget package. Usually, when the nuget package contains other dlls which means they are probably depended on a master DLL, or used at runtime.

All of them play an important role in this nuget, so we cannot easily remove them.

Although we can use Assembly Reference format(Right-click on References --> Add Reference --> choose one Dll) to reference the specific dll, but there is a risk that if the DLL depends on other corresponding DLL, an error will be reported. So we don't recommend it.

The best way is to install the whole nuget package with all the related dlls.

Hope it could help you.