For a while now I’ve been wanting to hook up our continuous integration process with a local NuGet gallery. The basic idea is for the build process to produce NuGet packages containing components that are used across a number of internal developments. These packaged up components would then be published to a local NuGet gallery where the packages could be located by internal developers and pulled down into projects in Visual Studio that have a dependency on those components. Jetbrains announcement of native support for NuGet within their TeamCity application made this integration even more attractive.
At the time of writing the NuGet documentation on setting up a local gallery server is a little out of date, referring to an older version of the gallery. What follows is a simple set of instructions on getting a local gallery setup. Continue reading
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