How to include assemblies from NuGet packages in a VSIX Installer?

Question

I\'m working on creating a Visual Studio 2017 custom Check-In Policy extension. My current solution is structured as follows:

Note: I am taking advantage of

Answer 1

I you're looking for a more flexible way to other answers I have used the following.

This will add all resolved project reference NuGet references to the appropriate VSIXSubPath. This will also ignore framework references to NuGet package files.

The items are added in the target GetVsixSourceItems. I also had issues adding the project output assembly because by default it adds the assembly in the intermediate output path (obj) folder. This was causing issues for me because I sign the assembly in the bin folder. Here's a target to use the bin assembly instead of the intermediate output assembly.

  
    
    
      

      
        $(AssemblyVSIXSubPath)
        $(InstallRoot)
        $(Ngen)
        $(NgenApplication)
        $(NgenArchitecture)
        $(NgenPriority)