Refer assemblies from artifactory in NET

Question

I have been trying to make a .Net project work with Artifactory. For now I have uploaded the reference assemblies(.dll) files to artifactory using Jenkins. Now to build my solution, I want to refer those uploaded reference assemblies(artifacts) from artifactory, rather than referring them from the local path. I tried using the MSBuild artifactory plugin, but it has a partial support for Jenkins.

Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Here is a concept which you can apply,

Try to reference dll directly from Artifactory. To use them as dependencies in your project you have two options :

1. Download them locally before your build (you can setup a prebuild step for that)
2. Create a nuget package containing these dlls, to upload this nuget package to Artifactory (this is where the MsBuild Artifactory plugin can help you) and use it as a nuget dependency within your project where the nuget feed used by Visual Studio will be configured to reach Artifactory nuget repository.

I hope that the above information would be helpful for you.