Deploying your code analyzer within your organization only

Code analyzers are a fantastic method to check and correct code automatically. Sometimes, however, the analyzers you create will not be suitable for public consumption as they might contain proprietary information. With NuGet, you can create private repositories and share these with colleagues. You can use a shared location on a company server, for example, and easily manage NuGet packages from there.

Getting ready

Ensure that you have a shared location accessible to all developers in your organization. This can be anywhere your network administrator has provided for shared file access. You will probably want to restrict the access of these packages to developers only. A nice solution is to create a storage account on Azure to share the NuGet packages to. This is the approach I followed here using a fictitious company I have called Acme Corporation.

I will not go through setting up a storage account on Azure, but I will talk about accessing...