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Alex I
Alex I

Reputation: 2268

MSBuild and package restore with packages.config

Is it possible to restore packages during the build using MSBuild only if projects are still using packages.config?

Upvotes: 17

Views: 17203

Answers (3)

ceztko
ceztko

Reputation: 15207

EDIT: This answer was outdated by recent MSBuild enhancements. See @irvnriir answer.

According to documentation[1]:

The restore target works only for projects using the PackageReference format. It does not work for projects using the packages.config format; use nuget restore instead.

So you will have to use nuget.exe restore instead. Look my other answer for that.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/reference/msbuild-targets

Upvotes: 5

irvnriir
irvnriir

Reputation: 796

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/reference/msbuild-targets#restore-target

MSBuild 16.5+ also has opt-in support for the packages.config format.

Use:

msbuild -p:RestorePackagesConfig=true -t:restore
msbuild -t:build

Upvotes: 31

Bart De Kimpe
Bart De Kimpe

Reputation: 359

As far as I can read on https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/consume-packages/package-restore it is possible:

MSBuild: use the msbuild /t:restore command, which restores packages packages listed in the project file (PackageReference only). Available only in NuGet 4.x+ and MSBuild 15.1+, which are included with Visual Studio 2017. nuget restore and dotnet restore both use this command for applicable projects.

Upvotes: 0

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