what does the output that dotnet store generate?

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I have an asp.net core web application project file as below:

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web">

  <PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp3.1</TargetFramework>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="Autofac" Version="6.3.0" />
  </ItemGroup>

</Project>

When I run dotnet restore, I got files generated in obj folder as:

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I didn't see any file that is related to Autofac, I expected to see a file like autofac.dll or sth like this, so where is it? isn't the purpose of dotnet restore is to restore the dependencies of a project, which means to download the Autofac package so that it can be build with the application?

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1 Answers

dotnet restore command restore files in %userprofile%\.nuget\packages on Windows as default setting.

we can use --packages args to set another path.

If you want to see the .dll, we might need to watch bin folder instead of obj folder as the default setting.

Then use dotnet build which will build the .dll files into bin

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