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Include both Nuget Package References *and* project reference DLL using “dotnet pack” 📦

Rich on September 05, 2019

Edit: Looks like at somepoint dev.to did a formatting change which broke some bits here. Check out the Original: http://yer.ac/blog/2019/09/05/dotn...
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Alex Klaus •

Wanted to cross-reference a similar implementation on SO - stackoverflow.com/a/59893520/968003.

BTW, in order to bring XML-docs add BuildOnlySettings to "Target DependsOnTargets". It also will add PDBs to *.snupkg if you generate one.

So the final snippet looks like:

<PropertyGroup>
    <TargetsForTfmSpecificBuildOutput>$(TargetsForTfmSpecificBuildOutput);CopyProjectReferencesToPackage</TargetsForTfmSpecificBuildOutput>
</PropertyGroup>
<Target DependsOnTargets="BuildOnlySettings;ResolveReferences" Name="CopyProjectReferencesToPackage">
    <ItemGroup>
        <BuildOutputInPackage Include="@(ReferenceCopyLocalPaths-&gt;WithMetadataValue('ReferenceSourceTarget', 'ProjectReference'))" />
    </ItemGroup>
</Target>
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ashish4github •

This worked great for the project dll to be included but did not add the packages references for the packages referenced form ProjectB.dll

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Alexey Zimarev •

Thanks! Solved my issue today :)

I managed to get it working without those lines:

  <ReferenceOutputAssembly>true</ReferenceOutputAssembly>
  <IncludeAssets>ProjectB.dll</IncludeAssets>
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Maksym Koshovyi •

Could you please share your solution?

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Ibrahim Namdar •

I solved it by setting PrivateAssets="all"

<ProjectReference Include="..\ProjectB.csproj" PrivateAssets="all"/>
Otherwise ProjectB was seen as a package dependency not a project dependency.

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Bullock •

Thanks!!!!!

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Aleksandras •

Thanks, it looks like promising solution!
However I found one not fully solved issue with it.. It copies all needed files correctly and it works in general, but it still adds a package reference to not existing package inside generated *.nuspec file.
Trying to restore "master" NuGet package from Visual Studio - it's trying to find the dependent (not existing) package, and obviously fails. However if I add the "master" package manually through *.csproj file - it's added and can be successfully restored. There is also no resolved code - so everything works. Except some better tooling support..

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Aleksandras •

Nevermind.. seems like "ProjectB.dll" did the work, and now it works more correctly. I just didn't want to reference a dll in a "hardcoded" way initially..

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mmuecke •

Hi
thanks a lot for this solution. I like it to structure my nuget solutions in projects.
Is there a way to include the xml doc files form the referenced projects into the nuget.
This would make IntelliSense possible for the nuget.

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mmuecke • • Edited

I manged to include *.xml and *.pdb files in the output folder into the nuget with this changes:

  <PropertyGroup>
    ...
    <TargetsForTfmSpecificBuildOutput>
      $(TargetsForTfmSpecificBuildOutput);CopyProjectReferencesToPackage
    </TargetsForTfmSpecificBuildOutput>
    <AllowedOutputExtensionsInPackageBuildOutputFolder>
      $(AllowedOutputExtensionsInPackageBuildOutputFolder);.xml
      $(AllowedOutputExtensionsInPackageBuildOutputFolder);.pdb
    </AllowedOutputExtensionsInPackageBuildOutputFolder>
  </PropertyGroup>
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  <Target DependsOnTargets="ResolveReferences" Name="CopyProjectReferencesToPackage">
    <ItemGroup>
      <BuildOutputInPackage Include="@(ReferenceCopyLocalPaths-&gt;WithMetadataValue('ReferenceSourceTarget', 'ProjectReference'))" />
      <BuildOutputInPackage Include="@(ReferenceCopyLocalPaths->WithMetadataValue('ReferenceSourceTarget', 'ProjectReference')->Replace('.dll', '.xml'))" />
      <BuildOutputInPackage Include="@(ReferenceCopyLocalPaths->WithMetadataValue('ReferenceSourceTarget', 'ProjectReference')->Replace('.dll', '.pdb'))" />
    </ItemGroup>
  </Target>
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Bazen •

useful writeup!

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Togne •

Thanks! Saved my day. Cheers!😊

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majid mohammadi •

I just registered to dev.to to say thank you! You saved my day! :)