How to add a nuget dependency?

[srid]

Here's what I tried,

1. Add nuget Memstate.All to paket.dependencies
2. Run ./build.sh DotnetRestore (I ran this inside the devcontainer, FWIW)

But the added package cannot be referenced from the source. Perhaps I'm missing something? The paket manual states that I should run paket install - but I'd expect the project build script (via build.fsx) to do it for me? Also, the paket command is not available in the docker devcontainer.

[TheAngryByrd]

Short Answer:

I think the only step you need from your current process is to add it to paket.references as well. So add Memstate.All all paket.references files in your projs that require it.

You can also do dotnet paket add Memstate.All -i, this will add this package and allow you to choose which projects should this dependency be added to.

Longer Answer

To add a nuget package via paket, you'll want to use paket add. You can either specify -i flag to interactively choose with projects to add this to or --project <path-to-project> to choose a specific project.

Paket is installed as a dotnet tool so you'll want to prefix any paket command with dotnet. If you get an error saying dotnet paket doesn't exist you'll need to run dotnet tool restore (build.cmd/sh does this for you) to make sure you have the dotnet tools. If there's still a bug with the docker devcontainer after this please open an issue).