Publish a new integration library to nuget about workbooks

[sandyarmstrong]

Hi! We've just done a new release (1.5.0) but didn't bump the integration nupkg. I'm not sure that it's needed.

Can you explain what you mean about the assembly reference not working for you?

[slodge]

What happens is:

1. Create new .net standard 2.0 library project
2. Try to add the Xam Integration nuget package (1.0.0-rc5) using the Nuget package manager window
3. The first part of the installation happens....

Installing NuGet package Xamarin.Workbooks.Integration 1.0.0-rc5.
Committing restore...
Writing lock file to disk. Path: C:\source\repos\MyProject\obj\project.assets.json
Restore completed in 87.61 ms for C:\source\repos\MyProject\MyLib\MyLib.csproj.
Successfully installed 'Xamarin.Workbooks.Integration 1.0.0-rc5' to MyLib
Executing nuget actions took 3.8 sec
Time Elapsed: 00:00:04.5610780
========== Finished ==========

At this point I can see the Nuget dependency including the .dll (but I wasn't quick enough to screenshot it)
4. But then something else happens shown in the packagemanager output window only as:

Time Elapsed: 00:00:08.6940591
========== Finished ==========

At this point there is no Xamarin.Interactive.dll included in my project any more - just the package with no dll inside it

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Digging deeper...

The nuspec file in the Xam nuget package is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<package xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/packaging/2011/10/nuspec.xsd">
  <metadata>
    <id>Xamarin.Workbooks.Integration</id>
    <version>1.0.0-rc5</version>
    <title>Xamarin Workbooks Integration</title>
    <authors>Microsoft</authors>
    <owners>Microsoft</owners>
    <requireLicenseAcceptance>true</requireLicenseAcceptance>
    <developmentDependency>true</developmentDependency>
    <licenseUrl>https://aka.ms/xamint-eula</licenseUrl>
    <projectUrl>https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/workbooks/sdk/</projectUrl>
    <iconUrl>https://dl.xamarin.com/interactive/workbooks-nuget-icon.png</iconUrl>
    <description>Build library integrations for Xamarin Workbooks. See the project page for
      more information and documentation.</description>
    <copyright>Copyright 2016-2017 Microsoft. All rights reserved.</copyright>
    <tags>xamarin workbooks interactive</tags>
    <releaseNotes>* Now .NET Standard 2.0 instead of PCL.
* Includes new APIs that allow integrations to asynchronously post results to code cells.</releaseNotes>
  </metadata>
</package>

When I compare this to a "nuspec" that seems to be ok - e.g. I can import my own Slodge.XamarinWorkbookExtensions

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<package xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/packaging/2012/06/nuspec.xsd">
  <metadata>
    <id>Slodge.XamarinWorkbookExtensions</id>
    <version>1.0.6</version>
    <authors>Stuart Lodge</authors>
    <owners>Stuart Lodge</owners>
    <requireLicenseAcceptance>false</requireLicenseAcceptance>
    <licenseUrl>https://github.com/slodge/XamarinWorkbooksExtensions/blob/master/LICENSE</licenseUrl>
    <projectUrl>https://github.com/slodge/XamarinWorkbooksExtensions</projectUrl>
    <description>This project provides some extensions to help you visualise your Workbook outputs.</description>
    <copyright>Stuart Lodge</copyright>
    <tags>Xamarin Workbooks</tags>
    <repository url="https://github.com/slodge/XamarinWorkbooksExtensions" />
    <dependencies>
      <group targetFramework=".NETStandard2.0" />
    </dependencies>
  </metadata>
</package>

The main differences I can spot are <dependencies> and <developmentDependency>

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[slodge]

Aside from that - good job on the 1.5 release (y) and it would be fab to have a proper release of the integration (i.e. to move out of prerelease)

[sandyarmstrong]

Right, it's a development dependency because you don't need to ship (or depend on) our package in your integration package, because Workbooks will always use its own version of that assembly (and actually that assembly is not a real assembly, but that's another story).

Are you unable to get intellisense in VS? Are you unable to build your library when it references types from our package?

[slodge]

The assembly isn't added to the list of references when I import using nuget into a new .Net Standard 2.0.3 C# project.

I have to add the Xamarin.Interactive.dll assembly manually in order to get intellisense or in order to build any code which would reference the xam namespaces.

I guess this might be something unique to my VS2017Pro setup (or maybe it's something in my virus checker - this is a corporate Win10 build).... Does the current nuget package work for other people in a VS2017 Windows10 installation for a new blank .Net Standard 2.0.3 library project?

Here's my experience in a rather slow gif:

[slodge]

I tried publishing a version of the Slodge nuget package without <dependencies> - that imports fine into a new project... so I think that bit of the nuspec is not relevant either... 😕