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Publish *.snupkg symbol package to private feed in VSTS

I want to package and publish a .net standard based code as a nuget package using VSTS build. I have created a private nuget feed (in VSTS Artifacts) to which I would like to publish nuget package along with symbols package.

I tried using dotnet CLI tasks to build and publish but it only publish .nupkg and not *.snupkg to the nuget feed.

I googled alot but I only found articles related to publishing to nuget.org and not to a private feed.

Solution

  • Publish *.snupkg symbol package to private feed in VSTS

    You can publish the .snupkg symbol package to NuGet.org, or to any NuGet server that opts into this experience. But azure devops private feed does not have this experience.

    You can get the detailed info from this wiki NuGet Package Debugging & Symbols Improvements:

    • When publishing packages, both the symbols package and the .nupkg will be easily published to NuGet.org, or to any NuGet server that opts into this experience.

    Reason:

    As we know, when we consume .snupkg in Visual Studio, we add a new symbol server location under Symbol file (.pdb) locations:

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    But Visual Studio can only parse the symbol file (.pdb) directly rather than the .snupkg package, so we need a NuGet server to help us read the .pdb file from the .snupkg package. Azure devops feed is more inclined to be a shared repository of packages.

    So, we have to publish *.snupkg symbol package to NuGet.org, or to any NuGet server that opts into this experience.

    If you do not want share your package on the nuget.org, You can host your own NuGet server or you can use a lightweight solution to resolve this issue (You can debug the nuget package with private feed).

    Hope this helps.