How do I install a NuGet package into the second project in a solution?

Question

I\'m currently working on a solution that initially contained one project (My.First.Project.Name). I\'ve installed Castle Windsor by executing:

Answer 1

The answer is, embarassingly, blindlingly simple.

The "Package Manager Console" has a drop-down titled "Default Project" in its toolbar, changing the project there to My.Second.Project.Name then allows Install-Package Castle.Windsor to install the package into the second project.

Answer 2

There's 3 approaches :).
In NuGet 1.1 (The latest release) we've improved powershell pipelining so you can do this:

Get-Project -All | Install-Package SomePackage

That will install "SomePackage" into all of your projects. You can use wildcards to narrow down which projects:

Get-Project Mvc* | Install-Package SomePackage

That will use wildcard semantics (in this case, find all projects that start with mvc).

Get-Project SomeProject | Install-Package SomePackage

That will install SomePackage into SomeProject and nothing else.

Answer 3

If you just need to copy packages from existing project to the new one, just copy and/or modify packages.config file to the new project and run Update-Package -reinstall -Project YourProjectName

Answer 4

There is also the option to force a reinstall. With certain problems, this helped me.

Update-Package Microsoft.Owin -Reinstall

Answer 5

There's two approaches.

As you already learned, the Package Manager Console has a drop down that lists the projects in your solution.

The other approach is to use the -Project flag. Nice thing about that is it gives you Intellisense with the project names! For example:

Install-Package SomePackage -Project MvcApplication2

Answer 6

In Visual Studio, you can go to Tools -> NuGet Package Manager -> Manage NuGet Packages for the entire Solution. From there, select the Nuget Package you want to share between projects and click Manage. This will allow you to add a specific installed NuGet Package to whichever other projects you want.