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I have an assembly that I have made which is very specific to my team at my company. I want to be able to use NuGet to make this assembly avaiable to other projects that my team and similar teams at my company are working on. However, the assembly isn't really code that I want to share with the world.

I know with Maven, you can create local repositories and source packages from a local repo. Does NuGet support similar functionality? Is there a way with NuGet to specify either a local repository or to have private packages?

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Yes! You can host your own NuGet server!

The easiest way is creating a shared folder on your server and referencing that as your Nuget Server.

You can find more information about how to do that at: Hosting Your Own NuGet Feeds

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Glauco Vinicius
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    At the link above, scroll down to the 'Creating Remote Feeds' section if you are looking to create an actual server, accessible via HTTP, to host your assemblies. – Kevin Kalitowski Jan 25 '13 at 18:31
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    Although this is probably the easiest way, it means you have to share the folder with everyone, and anyone with access could (accidently or not) temper with its content. A better way (yet simple way) is to create your own server using `NuGet.Server` and to host is in IIS or Azure. You will then be able to push packages using an API key and anyone can subscribe to the feed. Here is an easy guide to [create your own NuGet server](http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/872230/Create-Your-Own-Private-NuGet-Server-in-Windows-Az). – Alex Sanséau Mar 13 '15 at 09:27
  • I had the same problem. and found the following: Scott: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/HowToHostYourOwnNuGetServerAndPackageFeed.aspx also: https://nicolaiarocci.com/how-to-build-and-deploy-a-private-nuget-server-on-iis-or-azure/ – Michael Mittermair Apr 10 '18 at 12:11
  • And how-to use internal Nuget feeds with Azure Devops ? – Kiquenet May 18 '21 at 09:31
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    @Kiquenet use 'dotnet nuget add source --name "XXX" "https://YYY.net/nuget"' command before 'dotnet restore' – Alex xelA Feb 15 '22 at 09:16
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Another option for hosting your own NuGet server is to use JetBrains TeamCity as a build server. The setup is described here.

The Team City server acts as a NuGet repository that would/could/should only be accessible within your company.

Based on your usage, there are free versions of the software.

It has some nice options such as the ability to publish a new NuGet version on demand, with each new continuous integration build, etc. One of the most useful bits (as with all NuGet server implementations) is that it will keep dozens of older versions of your assemblies so if you have one project that needs to reference the newest version, and another project that needs to reference an older version, everything will work out.

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    Altough you're correct, TeamCity has very little to do with NuGet per say, and there's other options for a NuGet server (which is what he is asking for). TeamCity is rather a continous integration server that _happens_ to have a built-in NuGet server. – Jim Aho Mar 22 '18 at 16:25
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Check out the ProGet free edition; we built it exactly for this purpose. It takes much less time to setup and offers many features above and beyond those offered by the standard NuGet server, such as multiple feeds, feed aggregation, and additional repository types (npm, Bower, etc.)

If you want to pay for the enterprise version, you also get the ability to use LDAP for authentication, and the ability to filter feeds by name/license from connected feeds (i.e. NuGet's official feed).

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Yes, you can have local feeds. It's dead-simple to set up, take a look here.

MyGet is popular for hosting private feeds. It's not free, but take a look at their pricing and maybe it suits you well!

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