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I've got an application that has hundreds of plugins available as Nuget packages in a private repo. The application's "Plugin Search" feature relies (in part) on embedding some metadata about each plugin's respective features in the package's <Tags> field.

My goal is to automatically populate each package's <Tags> at build time, based on reflecting over the types defined in the package's project.

Has anyone accomplished this trick of programmatically editing the nuget package properties?

I'm using sdk-style projects, dotnet 8, vs2022

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  • This doesn't seem to have nothing to do with Roslyn. What have you tried and how did it fail? Commented Sep 2, 2024 at 17:47
  • @PauloMorgado I suspect one possible approach may be to use a roslyn analyzer with code fix to edit the '<Tags>' property in the .csproj but I don't know enough about that toolset to know if it's viable. I've been successful in extracting the metadata I need via reflection (by passing the compiled dll to an executable AfterBuild), but i've not found a good way to pass this metadata to the dotnet pack stage Commented Sep 2, 2024 at 18:51
  • I don't think Roslyn analizers can do that. You'd need a Visual Studio extension for that. Commented Sep 3, 2024 at 8:09
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    You can create a MSBuild task for that. Commented Sep 3, 2024 at 8:10
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