NuGetPushTool 1.0.0-alpha

Problem Statement

I've not found a really easy way to push updated packages to NuGet.org. You can of course follow Microsoft's own guidance. This is a bit complicated IMO because you need to have the package filename and your API key handy. You can wrap these in a batch file, but there's too much admin here.

I've used CI solutions like AppVeyor successfully, but I find AppVeyor kind of hard to setup. It has a ton of settings -- and to me therefore a discoverability problem. Although I've gotten it to work for some things, I've also found myself unable to get other projects working, and I couldn't figure out why. I've ended up doing it manually through NuGet.org's manual upload UI. I got tired of doing it manually, so I wanted to take a fresh look automating it in a console app. I'd like to be able to navigate to a package build directory and enter a command like this:

nugetpush

The program should find the packages in the current directory along with your API key, which you've placed in a single, defined location out of source control (much like Sleet does).

Code Tour

• Options defines available command line options
• Program.cs shows the high-level flow
• Program_methods.cs has the low-level implementation

Remarks

I had a fair bit of ChatGPT help. See a couple convos I had:

• this
• and this This didn't give me fully working solutions, but it did give a lot of useful nudges and ideas.

Also, after some reflection, I'm not sure I want to use the Post Build event to trigger a NuGet push because -- as it is now -- it doesn't run any tests. That's a nice thing about CI tools like AppVeyor -- they run your tests before pushing packages.