MSBuild.PublishNuget.Target 5.0.58

MSBuild.PublishNuget.Target

🎯⚙️ Provides a NuGet package that adds functionality to your project to auto-pack and publishes the project to a private nuget server as a nuget package.

Remarks: This works only with nuget.exe executable and is designed for .NET Framework projects. Not for .NET Core

Installation

Nuget package: https://www.nuget.org/packages/MSBuild.PublishNuget.Target

Install-Package MSBuild.PublishNuget.Target

Instructions

• Add the package to the project.
• Make sure you have the nuget.exe executable in your path (i.e. Open a command prompt and type nuget help and check if the version of nuget is displayed).
• You can download the most recent version of nuget.exeat NuGet downloads page.
• Open your .csproj and add the following property group to the file:

<PropertyGroup>
    <PackageAPIKey>{{YOUR PRIVATE NUGET FEED KEY}}</PackageAPIKey>
    <PackageServer>{{YOUR PRIVATE NUGET FEED URL}}</PackageServer>
    <PackageDir>{{ DIRECTORY TO GENERATE THE .NUPKG }}</PackageDir>
    <PackageIncludeReferencedProjects>true</PackageIncludeReferencedProjects>
</PropertyGroup>

• Put your data (Feed API Key and Feed Url).
• Set the directory where the package will be generated
• Set true or false to include referenced projects (if omitted, will be set to false)
• Save the .csproj.
• On Visual Studio, change the current configuration to Release if it isn't.
• Build!