Installing assemblies to special folders like VS PrivateAssemblies in NuGet package

Question

We are going to publish one of our commercial components, a .NET grid control, as a NuGet package. The product is separated into 2 DLLs - one is the core functionality, and the other is the design-time support assembly. The core assembly can be redistributed as a "normal" DLL and can be placed into any location. But to make the whole product work properly in VS IDE, the design-time part should be installed into a special folder like the Visual Studio PrivateAssemblies folder or into any folder with a special registry key that points to it. Do NuGet packages allow us to do this?

Answer 1

You need to use Chocolatey packages for a run-time dependency like this. NuGet packages are [designed for] for build-time dependencies only. See http://chocolatey.org/ - Chocolatey uses NuGet under the hood, but has a different focus. You'd probably use NuGet for the "anywhere" DLLs, and a separate Chocolatey package for the VS designer support.