Nuget Server

• Create an ASP.NET web project with the Empty template
• Install the Nuget.Server package
• Publish the project to the IIS server

Publish options:

Connection

- Publish method: Web deploy
- Server: localhost (no port number)
- Site name: NugetServer (site name in IIS)
- Destination URL: http://localhost:8080 (site address)

Settings

- Configuration: Release
- Check “Exclude file from the App_Data folder”

Nuget Package

• Create the .nuspec file for the project

nuget.exe spec

(run this command where the .csproj file is located)

• Complete the data in the new file created

• Build the project in Release mode and generate the nuget package with:

   nuget.exe pack Project.csproj -Prop Configuration=Release 
  

• Copy the .nupkg file created into the Packages folder of the NugetServer

Visual Studio

• Configure the Nuget repository in VS

• Tools -> Nuget Package Manager -> Package Manager Settings -> Package Sources

• Add a new one

  • Name: Local Server
  • Source: http://localhost:8080/nuget
  • Click on Update. OK

Automatise the package creation

• Create a folder Tools in your solution and copy the nuget.exe file into it
• Create a Post-Build event in the project to create the nuget package automatically and move it to the Packages folder of the Nuget server

$(SolutionDir)/Tools/nuget.exe pack "$(ProjectPath)" -Prop Configuration=Release

if exist "$(TargetDir)*.nupkg" (
	move "$(TargetDir)*.nupkg" \\NuGetServer\Packages\
)

Be sure that the version of the library has been incremented after the build. I use Automatic Versions

References

• Hosting Your Own NuGet Feeds
• Creating and Publishing a Package