GitHub Action: .NET Build/Test/Pack/Publish

This GitHub Action builds multi-targetted .NET libraries and pushes the packages to both the official NuGet and also the GitHub Actions packages feeds. This action is expecting to find a single .NET solution file (.sln) in the base of your repository - and one or more class libraries with <IsPackable>true</IsPackable> set in the csproj file.

Note: <IsPackable>true</IsPackable> is a default setting in a csproj file, so be sure to disable IsPackable for other projects via a Directory.Builds.Props file else these other projects will be pushed to the NuGet feed as well!

Currently configured for these .NET versions;

• .NET 8.0.x

Examples

Minimal usage example;

steps:

- uses: f2calv/gha-dotnet-nuget@v1
  with:
    GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Complete usage example;

steps:

- uses: f2calv/gha-dotnet-nuget@v1
  id: dotnet
  with:
    GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
    NUGET_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
    BuildConfiguration: Release

- run: |
    echo "SemVer=${{ steps.dotnet.outputs.SemVer }}"
    echo "FullSemVer=${{ steps.dotnet.outputs.FullSemVer }}"
    echo "BuildConfiguration=${{ steps.dotnet.outputs.BuildConfiguration }}"

Here are fully working examples of this action in active use in my own public repositories;

• gha-dotnet-nuget-test - uses this action via a re-usable workflow (this project can be used as a template of best practise if required)
• CasCap.Common - uses this action directly.
• CasCap.Apis.GooglePhotos - uses this action via a re-usable workflow.
• CasCap.GooglePhotosCli - uses this action via a re-usable workflow.
• yamlizr - uses this action via a re-usable workflow.

Inputs

• GITHUB_TOKEN, built-in GitHub Actions token i.e. ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}, required parameter.
• NUGET_API_KEY, API key for your public NuGet account i.e. ${{ secrets.NUGET_API_KEY }}, without this the NuGet package publish steps will be skipped.
• BuildConfiguration, .NET Build configuration parameter i.e. Debug or Release, default is Release
• PublishPreview, publish a pre-release package from a non-default branch - i.e. true or false, default is false

Outputs

• SemVer, a simple semantic version created by the GitVersion tool, i.e. 1.2.3
• FullSemVer, full semantic version plus branch name created by GitVersion tool, i.e. 1.2.3-feature-bugfix-123
• BuildConfiguration, final build configuration that was used in the build, i.e. Debug or Release Note: Why? When passing in BuildConfiguration via a workflow_dispatch there is the potential for the inbound parameter to be an empty string.