visual-studio.net-corenugetcsprojdotnet-core-pack

Including Nuget Content Files to Target Projects Publish on .net Core Project

before i start i must state that i pretty new to this nuget package things, so come basic at me.

My app has a core project to carry some .dll and .sql files and an api project. I have made the core project a nuget package with dotnet pack and automated it on github action so it creates a new version at all prs and pushes it to my private nuget server and it is all fine till here.

When i install this core package to my api project, there is no problem either. It installs successfully and my sql files shows up on the target project as i expected(but as linked sources).

sql files linked source

But when i try to publish this project with dotnet pack, the .sql files are not copied to output folder. I looked to the properties of the files and saw that their copy to output directory prop has been reset to do not copy and the file path was absolute.

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My goal is to build and deploy this api with github actions so absolute paths are not acceptable and besides i don't want to arrange something in the target project manually.

I'm packing the core project with dotnet pack I don't have any

or other things like than and i don't know how to use them.

I have tried adding to csproj file <CopyLocalLockFileAssemblies>true</CopyLocalLockFileAssemblies> and <RestoreProjectStyle>PackageReference</RestoreProjectStyle> things and they did not work.

I have tried adding to csproj file enter image description here and it did not work too.

Can anyone help me?

Solution

  • The only thing you need to do is that you should write this node <PackageCopyToOutput>true</PackageCopyToOutput> to every content file of the nuget net core project:

    <ItemGroup>
<Content Include="Queries\Account\CheckAccountRef.sql">
<PackageCopyToOutput>true</PackageCopyToOutput>
</Content>

.....
</ItemGroup>

    Then, re-pack your nuget project with dotnet pack and then reinstall this new version into your main project. Before you install, you should delete the old caches under C:\Users\xxx\.nuget\packages.

    There is a similar issue about this.