augustoproiete / devexpress-nuget

Unofficial NuGet Packages for the DevExpress .NET Components - http://www.devexpress.com

Hi there 👋, I'm Augusto.

Feel free to contact me on Twitter @augustoproiete or [email protected]

I'm a maintainer on a number of open-source projects on my spare time, including:

• Cake, a cross-platform build automation system with a C# DSL And developed and maintain a number of Cake addins and modules
• Serilog, a logging library designed with structured event data in mind, Also developed and maintain a number of sinks and enrichers for Serilog
• Excel-DNA, develop addins and extensions for Excel using C# Also developed and maintain a number of extensions for Excel-DNA
• Ookii Dialogs (wpf, winforms), a set of common dialogs for Windows Desktop apps
• Hangfire.Dashboard.Customize, options for customizing Hangfire Dashboards
• EmptyLicensesLicx, easy continuous integration of apps using third-party controls that rely on licenses.licx files
• DevExpress-NuGet, NuGet Packages for the DevExpress .NET Components

...and more.

  

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Cake Extensions

Cake (C# Make) is a free and open source cross-platform build automation system with a C# DSL for tasks such as compiling code, copying files and folders, running unit tests, compressing files and building NuGet packages

• Cake.MinVer: Use MinVer in Cake builds. MinVer is a tool for versioning projects using Git tags
• Cake.Jekyll: Build Jekyll static sites in Cake builds. Jekyll is a blog-aware, static site generator in Ruby
• Cake.ExcelDnaPack: Use ExcelDnaPack in Cake builds. ExcelDnaPack is a packaging tool for Excel add-ins built with Excel-DNA

Serilog Extensions

Serilog provides diagnostic logging to files, the console, and elsewhere. It is easy to set up, has a clean API, and is portable between recent .NET platforms. Unlike other logging libraries, Serilog is built with powerful structured event data in mind

• Serilog.Sinks.RichTextBox: Sink to write log events to a WPF RichTextBox control
• Serilog.Sinks.Notepad: Sink to write log events to Notepad as text or JSON
• Serilog.Sinks.ExcelDnaLogDisplay: Sink to write events to Excel-DNA LogDisplay
• Serilog.Enrichers.GlobalLogContext: Enricher to dynamically add properties to all log events of your application
• Serilog.Enrichers.ExcelDna: Enricher with properties from Excel-DNA add-ins
• ExcelDna.Diagnostics.Serilog: Integrate Excel-DNA Diagnostic Logging with Serilog
• Prism.Logging.Serilog: Integrate Serilog with Prism in WPF, UWP, or Xamarin Forms apps

Excel-DNA Extensions

Excel-DNA is an independent project to integrate .NET into Excel. With Excel-DNA you can make native (.xll) add-ins for Excel using C#, Visual Basic.NET or F#, providing high-performance user-defined functions (UDFs), custom ribbon interfaces and more. Your entire add-in can be packed into a single .xll file requiring no installation or registration.

• ExcelDna.Diagnostics.Serilog: Integrate Excel-DNA Diagnostic Logging with Serilog
• ExcelDna-Unpack: Extract contents of Excel-DNA add-ins that have been packed with ExcelDnaPack
• Cake.ExcelDnaPack: Use ExcelDnaPack in Cake builds. ExcelDnaPack is a packaging tool for Excel add-ins built with Excel-DNA
• ExcelDna.Abstractions: Mock / unit test Excel-DNA Add-ins
• Serilog.Sinks.ExcelDnaLogDisplay: Sink to write events to Excel-DNA LogDisplay
• Serilog.Enrichers.ExcelDna: Enricher with properties from Excel-DNA add-ins
• ExcelDnaPack: ExcelDnaPack NuGet package for use as a tool in build scenarios

Others

• NaturalStringExtensions: Extensions for sorting strings using natural sort order i.e. Alphabetical order for humans
• EmptyLicensesLicx: Easy continuous integration of apps using third-party controls that rely on licenses.licx files
• IAmRoot NuGet Package: Shows we can run arbitrary code from any NuGet package
• dotnet-args: Cross-platform .NET CLI Tool that prints the command-line arguments it receives, to help debug scripts and apps
• Hangfire.Dashboard.Customize: Customize Hangfire Dashboards (e.g. Change the Title)
• Microsoft.Solver.Foundation.Express: NuGet Package for the Microsoft Solver Foundation Express

devexpress-nuget's Issues

What’s the advantage of this over DevExpress’ own NuGet server?

Are you aware of https://www.devexpress.com/Support/Center/Question/Details/T466415/devexpress-nuget-packages?

I’m using their own package source and that works fine. You still need DX installed to use any of the wizards/designers and the upgrade wizard messes up with the references, but I guess that will be the same with your approach.

Generate v20.1.4 files

Would you to generate the scripts to build the v20.1.4 packages? Or have you published the code you use to create these and I can modify and generate them?

DevExpress 14.2.3

Devexpress 14.2 was released. Any chance you could provide the nuspec files for that as well?
(or maybe just put up the tool you use somewhere..)

17.2.5 Package Definitions

Could you please generate and publish the scripts for v17.2.5?

DevExpress v15.2.X

Hello,

can you please provide nuspec definitions for version 15.2.X. Latest version is 15.2.3

With best regards,
Stefan

Generate NuGet Specs for Windows 8 XAML DevExpress controls

Nuspecs for Windows 8 XAML controls are currently not being created.

Use T4 for nuspec generation

This is not an issue but a feature suggestion.

You said you are using a C# app to generate the nuspec files and are planning to release it after a rewrite. It would be great if you would not just update and relase new versions of the files but create a solution/project with a T4 template that does the job.

With that I could just drop the needed dlls in the lib folder, run the T4 tool which would generate the nuspec files.

This would solve issue #4 and issue #7 with little effort.

The key is to let a single T4 template generate mutliple output files:

http://t4-editor.tangible-engineering.com/blog/how-to-generate-multiple-output-files-from-a-single-t4-template.html

About references in *.config

How these packages add various references in *.config files to load assemblies and whatnot please?

v18.2.7 Package Definitions

It appears that DevExpress has removed the 18.2.6 version of their software. Could you generate and upload the definitions for v18.2.7?

Update script to use proper .NET Framework Version

With the release of v18.2, DevExpress upgraded all packages to use .NET Framework 4.5.2. While I believe I can go in and update the .nuspec for 18.2.7 I wondered if you could update your generating script to define the proper .NET Framework version.

Generate 18.1.6 nuspec

Hello,

DevExpress just released v18.1.6, which has a few critical updates to issues we found in 18.1.5. Could you please generate the v18.1.6 nuspec files?

Some .dlls don't have matching .xml file

First off thanks so much for the effort to create this project and keep it updated. Hopefully it will solve some of DevExpress minor version nightmares. This is the first time I've attempted to build NuGet packages and I'm trying to use the nuget-pack.ps1 script. (for now I'm testing the 14.2.4 version) The issue I'm having is that some dll's don't have a matching .xml file and the script stops executing with a file not found error. So what I'm doing for the moment manually editing the .nuspec file and comment out the .xml file line. For example,

<file src="lib\DevExpress.Dashboard.v14.2.Core.xml" target="lib\net40" />  

Is this just something I will have manually handle each time we upgrade and rebuild the packages?

Also, when it come to rolling back to a previous nuget package version what is the recommended way? Would I need to open the Package Manager Console and specify the exact package version number we need to rollback too in the command line? For example, Install-Package <DX_PACKAGE_NAME> -Version 14.2.3

Again Thanks So Much for the effort!

Write Powershell script to generate the NuGet packages from the .nuspec files

The script nuget-pack.cmd should be converted to a simpler Powershell script that enumerates the nuspec files and calls the nuget.exe utility, instead of having all the calls hard-coded in a batch file

Generate 18.1.5

Could you generate the scripts for 18.1.4?

Add support for language-specific assemblies

The language-specific assemblies for German, Spanish, Japanese, and Russian are currently not being included in any of the NuGet packages

Update packages to DevExpress 15.1.6 released on Aug 24th

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Continue on error.

I am trying this with devexpress asp.net controls 16.2.3 and I think that continuing on error would be a more sensible default.

So for example, this would mean delete (shown here commented out) the two lines that make the powershell script just halt on the first error it hits:

//$ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"

Clear

Get-ChildItem ".\nuspec" -Filter *.nuspec | `

Foreach-Object{
    Write-Host $_.Name

    & "..\nuget.exe" pack $_.FullName -BasePath "." -OutputDirectory ".\nupkg"

    if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0)
    {
        Write-Error "Error generating nupkg for '$($_.Name)'"
        // break
    }
}

When I run this with devex 16.2, multiple files FAIL for me because the .XML files are missing, perhaps they were not shipped anymore with the developer express installer?

Generate v17.1.6 Release

Could you generate the files needed to create v17.1.6 NuGet packages? Any update to publishing the source code to generate the .nuspec files?

Suggestion: A small change to how .Design files are handled.

I see you've used a little trick of setting "CopyLocal" to "false" to deal with the ".Design" files. I think that can be improved upon a little. The .Design files don't need to be referenced at all by the project. It might be better to include them in the parent component (e.g. in the example below I've modified the Xpf.PropertyGrid package to include the .Design file), and make use of the "references" section to reference only the appropriate files. This strategy still seems to work in the editor in Visual Studio. The appropriate .Design file is discovered by the IDE, despite not being referenced.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<package xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/packaging/2012/06/nuspec.xsd">
  <metadata>
    <id>Unofficial.DevExpress.Xpf.PropertyGrid</id>
    <version>14.1.7.0</version>
    <title>Unofficial.DevExpress.Xpf.PropertyGrid</title>
    <authors>Developer Express Inc.</authors>
    <owners>Caio Proiete</owners>
    <licenseUrl>https://www.devexpress.com/Support/EULAs/NetComponents.xml</licenseUrl>
    <projectUrl>https://www.devexpress.com/Subscriptions/DXperience.xml</projectUrl>
    <requireLicenseAcceptance>true</requireLicenseAcceptance>
    <description>DevExpress.Xpf.PropertyGrid.v14.1, Version=14.1.7.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b88d1754d700e49a</description>
    <summary>Unofficial.DevExpress.Xpf.PropertyGrid NuGet package</summary>
    <copyright>Copyright (C) 2000-2014 Developer Express Inc.</copyright>
    <tags>unofficial devexpress xpf propertygrid</tags>
    <dependencies>
      <group targetFramework=".NETFramework4.0">
        <dependency id="Unofficial.DevExpress.Xpf.Core" version="14.1.7.0" />
        <dependency id="Unofficial.DevExpress.Data" version="14.1.7.0" />
        <dependency id="Unofficial.DevExpress.Mvvm" version="14.1.7.0" />
      </group>
    </dependencies>
    <references>
        <reference file="DevExpress.Xpf.PropertyGrid.v14.1.dll" /><!-- by omitting the .Design.dll here, it will not be referenced in the project -->
    </references>
  </metadata>
  <files>
    <file src="lib\DevExpress.Xpf.PropertyGrid.v14.1.dll" target="lib\net40" />
    <file src="lib\DevExpress.Xpf.PropertyGrid.v14.1.xml" target="lib\net40" />
    <file src="lib\Design\DevExpress.Xpf.PropertyGrid.v14.1.Design.dll" target="lib\net40" />
  </files>
</package>

Generate Packages bring "File not found exception"

Hi CaioProiete,

first thank you for this Project 👍

I use the current Devexpress Version 15.1.3. When i start to generate the packages via PS ".\nuget-pack.ps1" i get the follow error:

File not found: 'lib\DevExpress.Charts.Designer.v15.1.xml'.
C:_Data\Work\head\DevExpress-NuGet\src\nuget-pack.ps1 : Error generating nupkg for 'Unofficial.DevExpress.Charts.Desig
ner.nuspec'
Bei Zeile:1 Zeichen:17

• .\nuget-pack.ps1 <<<<
  • CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Write-Error], WriteErrorException
  • FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.WriteErrorException,nuget-pack.ps1

First i removed this xml file deklaration from the nuspec-File and start again. But then the Script break at one of the next files. I stoppt this after 10 remove and retrys.

My question: Can you publish you nuspec-File generator tool. So i can start it local on my maschine and create nuspec-File with a working with my current devexpress installation (check file exists), right?

Also i can add the language feature. In my case i only need the german language

Thank you.

Guido

generate the packages with correct dependencies

I made a similar script which generates nuget nuspec and packages with correct dependencies:

https://gist.github.com/smoothdeveloper/994522269a0a04c275c9

In this repository it is mentioned:

The nuspec files are currently being generated by a quick-and-dirty C# app that I wrote, which is not ready to be shared with the world :)

I think the fsharp script in my gist could replace that C# app which is not published, so I just wanted to share it for other users that might want to use it in case this repository doesn't get updated with future release or if they want to use it with older releases.

New location for DevExpress libraries

Hi;

The files are now in C:\Program Files\DevExpress 23.1\Components\Bin (at least on my system). So no longer in Program Files (x86).

And there are three sub-folders there: Framework, NetCore, & Standard. I think NetCore is the one for .NET Core 6 (7, 8, etc.) but have a question in on that. Will confirm here.

thanks - dave