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the_joric
the_joric

Reputation: 12226

Installing multiple packages via Nuget by single command

I am using Nuget via Visual Studio's Package Manager Console. For every project I need to add few packages e.g. xunit.contribs, fluentassertions and nsubstitute. To do that I type 3 commands in consolle.

I understand that console is just another powershell host and there should be a way to create a script (kind of Add-Test-Stuff.ps1) that will add several packages at once. What is the best way to do that?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 5352

Answers (3)

Eric Herlitz
Eric Herlitz

Reputation: 26257

I typically define my packages in arrays and execute them using a foreach loop

$angular = "AngularJS.Animate", "AngularJS.Core", "AngularJS.Locale", "AngularJS.Resource", "AngularJS.Route", "AngularJS.Sanitize", "AngularJS.Touch"
$angular | foreach {Install-Package $_}

This can also be written as a one-liner

"AngularJS.Animate", "AngularJS.Core", "AngularJS.Locale", "AngularJS.Resource", "AngularJS.Route", "AngularJS.Sanitize", "AngularJS.Touch" | foreach {Install-Package $_}

Upvotes: 10

Mike Chaliy
Mike Chaliy

Reputation: 26648

Put any script to your solution directory and you will be able to execute it from Package Manager Console.

Upvotes: 1

Alexander Beletsky
Alexander Beletsky

Reputation: 19821

It is not direct answer to you question, sorry. But I've seen very nice practive adopted for Code52 IdeaStrike project.

They do not have any packages included in source control, instead they will be installed during first build of solution and downloaded automatically, depending on packages.config

The details of configuration are here:

Using NuGet without committing packages to source control

Upvotes: 1

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