NuGet auto package restore does not work with MSBuild

Question

I\'m trying to build a solution with packages content missing (except repositories.config inside) with MSBuild 12.0. I expect it to auto restore al

Answer 1

In Visual Studio 2017 - When you compile using IDE - It will download all the missing nuget packages and save in the folder "packages".

But on the build machine compilation was done using msbuild.exe. In that case, I downloaded nuget.exe and kept in path.

During each build process before executing msbuild.exe. It will execute -> nuget.exe restore NAME_OF_SLN_File (if there is only one .SLN file then you can ignore that parameter)