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nfplee
nfplee

Reputation: 7997

.NET Core 2 application reference NuGet package with static files

I have a .NET Core 2 application and I'm trying to reference a NuGet package which contains static files and have them copied to my application similarly to how the "content" directory worked in the past.

According to the following https://blog.nuget.org/20160126/nuget-contentFiles-demystified.html this looks to be supported under a "contentFiles" directory.

I've found the following package which looks to support the new schema:

https://www.nuget.org/packages/ContentFilesExample/

And added a reference to it by adding the following to my .csproj file:

<PackageReference Include="ContentFilesExample" Version="1.0.2" />

Now when I run dotnet restore it doesn't copy anything to my application. I've been searching through the GitHub issues but it's hard to follow what is outdated and what is supported.

I'd appreciate it if someone could let me know if this is supported and what I could possibly be doing wrong. If it's not supported please could you point me in the direction of the correct GitHub issue to follow. Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1034

Answers (2)

Anand Gaurav
Anand Gaurav

Reputation: 234

With PackageReference, the files are never copied over to the project. Rather the content files live in the global packages folder as immutable entities. You can still refer to these files as if these were expanded in your project. If you use Visual Studio 2017, you can see these as refs as shown below. You can refer to .csproj.nuget.g.props file in the obj directory to find out the details of the files refs/links.

Upvotes: 4

programmerj
programmerj

Reputation: 1684

Have you looked at NuGet pkg Microsoft.AspNetCore.StaticFiles (2.0.0) ?

Upvotes: -1

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