Persisting changes to config files within NuGet packages

Wed, 13 Aug 2014 06:39:00 +0100

Whenever NuGet updates or restores a NuGet package, the config files within it are overwritten. Here’s a method to make sure the changes are reapplied via a config transform whenever the solution is built.

I’m using the NUnit.Runners NuGet packages. To get our coverage tool to play nicely, I need to replace <supportedRuntime "v2.0.50727"> with <supportedRuntime "v4.0.30319"> within the NUnit-console-x86.exe.config.

Normally, a config transform is for modifying the web.config or app.config files. Here, we need to modify a config file within the packages subdirectory.

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Persisting changes to config files within NuGet packages