NuCake

NuCake is a package for quickly creating NuGet packages from your project.

All you need to do is install NuCake and it does the rest.

Available here http://nuget.org/packages/NuCake

To Install from the NuGet Package Manager Console

PM> Install-Package NuCake

Attributes

NuCake uses the assembly's attributes to determine the NuGet package information.

• The project name is used as the ID.
• AssemblyInformationalVersionAttribute sets the version. If it's not availabe the file version is used instead.
• AssemblyTitleAttribute sets the title.
• AssemblyDescriptionAttribute sets the description.
• AssemblyCopyrightAttribute sets the copyright.
• AssemblyCultureAttribute sets the language.
• AssemblyCompanyAttribute sets the author.

The author and description are required. If there is no attribute for them, NuCake uses default values and returns a warning during the build.

MSBuild

NuCake adds an msbuild task that will build your NuGet package from the various attributes.

You can also provide a reference folder to NuCake. Any files in the reference folder will be copied into the NuGet package instead, so make sure the output of your build is also in this folder if you want to include it.

If there is a nuget spec file in the reference folder then the metadata from that will be used where possible.

To specify the reference folder you'll need to add some properties to your project.

<PropertyGroup>
  <NuCakeReferenceFolder>$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\$(OutputPath)nuget</NuCakeReferenceFolder>
  <NuCakeVersionFieldCount>3</NuCakeVersionFieldCount>
</PropertyGroup>

NuCakeVersionFieldCount allows you to say how many parts of the version to use as your NuGet version (1-4).

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Cake by Kon Issara from The Noun Project