Storing nuget packages in an alternate location on the build server

Question

When developing locally, I have Nuget packages installed in the default folder (\ packages in the solution folder).

I want to have a different folder on my build server, which acts as a path to the repository, where I can also download packages, effectively providing me with a local cache of packages that will be stored in assemblies, without requiring all packages to be loaded every time to build.

On the CI server, I drop the nuget.config file into the solution directory, which indicates the location of the new package folder:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
  <config>
    <!-- Specify repository path -->
    <add key="repositorypath" value="x:\nugetPackages" />
  </config>
  <activePackageSource>
    <add key="nuget.org" value="https://www.nuget.org/api/v2/" />
  </activePackageSource>
  <packageRestore>
    <add key="enabled" value="True" />
    <add key="automatic" value="True" />
  </packageRestore>
</configuration>

x:\nugetPackages \, , , DLL . , hintPath - "..\packages\lib\lib.dll", , .

msbuild - . , msbuild script, :

• AssemblySearchPaths BeforeResolveReferences ( http://www.beefycode.com/post/resolving-binary-references-in-msbuild.aspx)
• LibPaths / AssemblySearchPaths .
• "activePackageSource" nuget.config.

, : error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'HttpRequestMessage' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

, MSBuild script :

• nuget "cache" (, x:\nugetPackages).
• (..\packages).
• .

, , - ? , XSLT hintPath . , ?

Answer 1

NuGet %localappdata%\NuGet\Cache, nuget.config.

NuGet , , . (activepackagesource "" )

Answer 2

, nuget.

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, , . - , , hintpaths Visual Studio. -, . ( mklink, hintpaths)

:

c:\packages\ --> our shared package repository
c:\mySolutions\solution1
c:\mySolutions\solution1\packages --> symlink to c:\packages
c:\mySolutions\solution2
c:\mySolutions\solution2\packages --> symlink to c:\packages    

:

cd c:\mySolutions\solution1
mklink /D packages c:\packages

, Nuget. ( : , , 200 .) , nuget restore .