I write a number of TFS Plugins, meaning I end up referencing all sorts of TFS assemblies. This entails trawling through the various client and server installation directories trying to find the particular dll I'm looking for.
As I like my projects to build without needing to install any extra dependencies manually, this means either I include the files when I check into source control, or more recently I manually create a NuGet package for each dll and put it in my private repository.
Since I also have a habit of updating to the latest version of TFS often I also find that I need to repeat this process quite often - finding all these assemblies, creating NuGet packages, then updating my plugins and redeploying
I finally got sick of it enough to write a small powershell script to find any assembly starting with Microsoft.TeamFoundationServer.* and create packages, including package references to other packages.
This script should also work for other products like SharePoint with a few tweaks
| #requires -version 2.0 | |
| param ( | |
| [parameter(Mandatory=$true)] | |
| [string] | |
| $Path | |
| ) | |
| $tool= "e:\tools\NuGet.exe" | |
| $files = Get-ChildItem -Path $Path -Filter Microsoft.TeamFoundation.*.dll -recurse | |
| if($files.length -lt 1) | |
| { | |
| Exit 0 | |
| } | |
| foreach ($assembly in $files) | |
| { | |
| #If the NuSpec file has the same name as an assembly, perform some basic search/replace on tokens | |
| $nuspecFile = $assembly -creplace '.dll', '.nuspec' | |
| $versionInfo = (dir $assembly.FullName).VersionInfo | |
| $nuspec = @" | |
| <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> | |
| <package> | |
| <metadata> | |
| <id>$($assembly -creplace '.dll', '')</id> | |
| <version>$($versionInfo.ProductVersion)</version> | |
| <authors>$(($versionInfo.CompanyName, 'Microsoft', 1 -ne '')[0])</authors> | |
| <owners>$($versionInfo.CompanyName)</owners> | |
| <description>$(($versionInfo.Comments, $versionInfo.FileDescription, 1 -ne '')[0])</description> | |
| <language>en-US</language> | |
| <requireLicenseAcceptance>false</requireLicenseAcceptance> | |
| <dependencies> | |
| "@ | |
| $references = [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom($assembly.FullName).GetReferencedAssemblies() | |
| foreach ($reference in $references ) | |
| { | |
| if($reference.Name.StartsWith("Microsoft.TeamFoundation")) { | |
| $nuspec += "<dependency id=""$($reference.Name)"" version=""($($reference.Version.ToString()),)"" />" | |
| } | |
| } | |
| $nuspec += @" | |
| </dependencies> | |
| </metadata> | |
| <files> | |
| <file src="$($assembly.FullName)" target="lib" /> | |
| </files> | |
| </package> | |
| "@ | |
| $nuspec | Set-Content $nuspecFile | |
| $cmd = "$tool pack ""$($nuspecFile)"" " | |
| Invoke-Expression $cmd | |
| Remove-Item $nuspecFile | |
| } |
