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The Package Manager Console provides a PowerShell interface within Visual Studio on Windows to interact with NuGet through the specific commands listed below. (The console is not presently available in Visual Studio for Mac.) For a guide to using the console, seeInstall and manage packages using Package Manager Console topic.
Tip
All PowerShell commands relate only to package consumption. No PowerShell commands relate to creating and publishing packages except to the extent that a package can also be a consumer of other packages.
Important
The commands listed here are specific to the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio, and differ from thePackage Management module commands that are available in a general PowerShell environment. Specifically, each environment has commands that are not available in the other, and commands with the same name may also differ in their specific arguments. When using the Package Management Console in Visual Studio, the commands and arguments documented in this present topic apply.
| Common Commands | Description | NuGet Version |
|---|---|---|
| Install-Package | Installs a package and its dependencies into the project. | All |
| Update-Package | Updates a package and its dependencies, or all packages in a project. | All |
| Find-Package | Searches a package source using a package ID or keywords. | 3.0+ |
| Get-Package | Retrieves the list of packages installed in the local repository, or lists packages available from a package source. | All |
| Secondary Commands | Description | NuGet Version |
|---|---|---|
| Add-BindingRedirect | Examines all assemblies within the output path for a project and adds binding redirects to theapp.config orweb.config where necessary. | All |
| Get-Project | Displays information about the default or specified project. | 3.0+ |
| Open-PackagePage | Launches the default browser with the project, license, or report abuse URL for the specified package. | Deprecated in 3.0+ |
| Register-TabExpansion | Registers a tab expansion for the parameters of a command, allowing you to create customized expansions for commonly-used parameter values. | All |
| Sync-Package | Get the version of installed package from specified project and syncs the version to the rest of projects in the solution. | 3.0+ |
| Uninstall-Package | Removes a package from a project, optionally removing its dependencies. | All |
For complete, detailed help on any of these commands within the console, just run the following with the command name in question:
Get-Help <command> -fullAll Package Manager Console commands support the followingcommon PowerShell parameters:
For details, refer toabout_CommonParameters in the PowerShell documentation.
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