I've looked at a ton of articles on this including here and here. None provide a solution that I can get to work.
I have everything turned on for automatically doing this in VisualStudio. But on our build machine we build the .sln files using MSBuild, not by opening up VisualStudio. So in MSBuild how can I best do this?
All of our .sln files are for VisualStudio 2019 and set to defaults on handling NuGet (I believe).
Hi DavidThielen,
You could run this command: msbuild [sln file] -t:restore -p:RestorePackagesConfig=true, which could work on my side.
Note: the package.config file locates at the project directory
The document: Restoring PackageReference and packages.config with MSBuild
Best Regards,
Dylan
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Hi Dylan;
I tried that - it didn't work. MSBuild returned immediately after doing nothing.
I did find a solution. I run "nuget.exe restore [sln_file]"
This works for me, i was using the commands in the documentation, but i was using them separately (-t:restore) (-p:RestorePackagesConfig=true)
In Jenkins i have to use 2 commands
msbuild [sln file filter] -t:restore -p:RestorePackagesConfig=true
msbuild [sln file filter]
First one only download the packages, the last one builds the solution
If you need to restore and build at once, you can do
msbuild [sln file filter] -t:restore,build -p:RestorePackagesConfig=true
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