PSNuGet

PSNuGet is NuGet package loader utility for Windows PowerShell.
Basic usage is very simple. use following statement. (Need PSNuGet install before execute)

Use-NuGetPackage [NuGetPackageId] -Verbose

It executes following tasks automatically.

• Download specified package from NuGet repositories.
  • Dependent NuGet packages are also downloaded.
  • Downloaded package is installed(cached).And no need to download second call.　
• Import following resources from NuGet packages to current PowerShell context
  • .NET assemblies (.dll)
  • PowerShell Modules (.psm1)

Install

Execute following command from powershell console
It automatically install PSNuGet PSModule to user module directory(%MyDocuments%\WindowsPowerShell\Modules).

(New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadString("https://raw.github.com/altrive/PSNuGet/master/Release/Install.ps1") | Invoke-Expression

Usage examples

Following scripts create Excel file(.xlsx) using ClosedXML library.

Use-NuGetPackage -PackageId ClosedXML -Verbose

#Set .Net current directory
[IO.Directory]::SetCurrentDirectory((Get-Location).Path)

#Output Excel file to current directory
$workbook = New-Object ClosedXML.Excel.XLWorkbook
$worksheet = $workbook.Worksheets.Add("Sample Sheet");
$worksheet.Cell("A1").Value = "Hello World!";
$workbook.SaveAs("HelloWorld.xlsx");
$worksheet.Dispose()
 
#Open Excel File
explorer "HelloWorld.xlsx"

Other examples.

• C# dynamic eval using Roslyn/Mono.CSharp
• Search GitHub API using OctokitDotNet

TODO Tasks

• [] Cleanup NuGet package temporary workdir.(automatically extracted to "%Temp%\NuGet")
• [] Support NuGet package that contain native DLLs.(e.g. Microsoft.Diagnostics.Tracing.TraceEvent)
• [] Support package install/deployment option(like Octopus Deploy PreDeploy/Deploy/PostDeploy scripts execution)