Dinis Cruz Blog: NuGet

Offline copy of the entire NuGet.org gallery. What should I do with these 4.05 Gbs of amazing .Net Apps/APIs?

As you can read on the posts below, I was able to create an offline copy of the entire http://nuget.org/ gallery (as of the 4th of May)

Downloading the entire NuGet package database

When I was having the serialization problems described in Saving the entire list of NuGet Packages I realized that adding a NuGet IPackage (retrieved from the GetPackages() method) to a SharePackageRepository will also download actual packages :)

Saving the entire list of NuGet Packages

Following from Retrieving NuGet package programatically using NuGet.exe classes (not command line), here is the script that downloads and saves the raw http responses (from the request used by the NuGet API to get them)

Retrieving NuGet package programatically using NuGet.exe classes (not command line)

Following from Consuming NuGet programmatically outside VisualStudio (downloading the list of packages) , here is how I was able to consume NuGet.exe directly and create a strongly-typed NuGet Packages object

I started by opening up NuGet.exe in ILSpy and see what it’s Main method is doing:

Consuming NuGet programmatically outside VisualStudio (downloading the list of packages)

I wanted to write an O2 Script today that consumed an NuGet package and was annoyed by the fact that there doesn’t seem to be an easy way to just download and consume the dlls directly (i.e. without VisualStudio).

I did a quick search and although it looks like I’m not the only one with this problem, since there isn’t an easy solution out there:

So the solution was to add support for it the O2 Platform :)