How do I search for Nuget Packages that target my plaftform?

Question

I am looking for a CRON-like timer/scheduler library that can run on Net Standard 1.x (actually it is a simple portable ASP.NET Core web app).

But I couldn't find any way to filter NuGet Packages by target platform. Whatever I tried I always get a list of all the packages, targeting whatever platform, so I am forced to try each one until I find one that doesn't fails on NuGet Restore.

For example:

• I went to nuget.org and did some trivial search, but seems like there is no way to filter on the target platform.
• I also tried Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 intellisense on the project.json file, but the suggested packages target other platforms and I end up with build errors.
• Downloaded NuGet Package Explorer which is great to find the target platforms of a given package, but doesn't let me search packages by platform.

I know this is a related question: [ How do I find the right NuGet package for my framework version ], but that question ended up being about how to find the correct older version of a well-known package that targets an older version of .NET Framework.

How can I list or search for NuGet Packages that target netstandard?

Answer 1

Even though Nuget Does not support Filtering Based on Frame work as of now . But even nuget search results is also not that dynamic. so Better go for the Google site Search of nuget site which gives better/ different search result than the nuget search like below

in the google search bar enter your search query like this

{your search query here(expecting nuget package with Flatform name)} site:nuget.org

start with the your serach query endind with the SITE:NUGET.ORG

It will definitely gives Different Results which might help you in filtering

Answer 2

As of July 2016, it is not supported by NuGet:

"We don't yet support filtering the list in VS this way." Github issue link