Please document the list of NuGet packages in README.md

[jnm2]

It's hard to discover information about which NuGet packages should be used and when. Please add a readme section which lists the main NuGet packages to use and why each one exists.

For example, when I need to run vstest.console.exe from a build script on a build server without VS installed, which is the smallest NuGet package or metapackage which I need?

I happen to know the answer to that question now, but I initially failed to find anything and I just happened to be told as part of another issue.

[heaths]

Or, more generally, how this is expected to be used? The vstest-docs repo covers the architecture, extensibility, and more well, but where's a doc that just says whether this effectively replaces calling out to the VS-installed adapter, and other brief "how to" content. That should be covered in this repo's README.md, IMO. Given the current difficulties in calling vstest.console.exe, can developers just expect to install these packages and not have to worry about how to find vstest.console.exe?

[pvlakshm]

Please see here: 0014-Packaging.md.

[heaths]

On GitHub, it's more common to list these in the README (or a link therefrom) or in the wiki that is included in all projects by default. I wasn't expecting to spelunk for documentation

[jnm2]

That looks great! It's exactly what I hoped for!

Now, can this be done for all packages published from this repo?

For example, when writing a test adapter, you'd want to reference Microsoft.TestPlatform.ObjectModel.

Or here's something I'm looking at right now. In the tests for the NUnit adapter, I want to create an ITestCaseFilterExpression from a given string to test against. The keys to that are public in Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestPlatform.Common.dll. So what I'm hoping to know is, which NuGet package should I reference? Microsoft.TestPlatform.TestHost seems like the smallest package which contains it, but the lib/net45 assemblies are missing. Do you think it's possible for the NuGet package documentation to answer questions like this?

[mayankbansal018]

@pvlakshm , can you please update the readme, & close this