Where does Visual Studio keep it's own copy of nuget.exe?

Question

I\'d like to know where Visual Studio keeps it\'s copy of nuget.exe so that I can use that path in a custom msbuild target I\'m planning to do.

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Answer 1

I'd like to know where Visual Studio keeps it's copy of nuget.exe

It doesn't have one. Nuget is an add-in, just DLLs. On my machine it is stored in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\clzwekqw.krr directory. The "clzwekqw.krr" part of the directory name is not going to repeat from one machine to the next, it was dynamically created. A basic mechanism to avoid having add-ins step on each other's toes.

You can get Nuget.exe, it is available through Nuget :) Obtain the Nuget.CommandLine package, the current version's project page is here. It will be installed as usual, in a subdirectory of your project. Currently packages\NuGet.CommandLine.2.8.3\tools, just the .exe