Updating local nuget package on post-build event

Question

I have my local nuget library repository separately both for my personal and work releted class libraries.

I have created some of the nuget packages for the libraries which are no longer in development. I did this only for them because I do not know how to update them automatically as soon as my project builds.

I have figured that all the work is being done by nuget command line with Visual Studio Command Prompt. So I can easily do the work I needed (of course I would know commands perfectly and I do not !)

Basically I want the following tasks to execute on the post-build event of my project.

On project build:

1. copying project dll into a specific folder (lib folder of the nuget package)
2. updating nuspec file for new file version (my project is increasing the file version on every build)
3. creating new nupkg file with new file version

Phil Haack shows some of this feature but it is still a prototype as far as I can tell.

So my requirement is the above. Has anyone else accomplished this?

Answer 1

Jeremy Skinner has written a blog post on how he performs automated builds of packages and uploads them to the NuGet Gallery. I think that it matches your requirements.

Basically he uses MsBuild to apply the version (with the MsBuild Community Extensions UpdateXml task) to the nuspec file and invoke the nuget.exe to package it up.