Share Nuget packages between solutions part 2

Let's see how we can fix the problem explained here.
According to the latest release notes by now you should be able to change the packages folder by adding this setting in the Nuget.config file:

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<configuration>   <config>     <add key="repositoryPath" value="C:\myteam\teampackages"></add>

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</config>   ... </configuration>

However unfortunately I couldn't make this work :( So I found a workaround. I want to make the Second.sln use the package folder of First.sln. So I have made the following changes to the NuGet.targets file.

1. I this section:
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   <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(OS)' == 'Windows_NT'">     <!-- Windows specific commands -->     <NuGetToolsPath>$([System.IO.Path]::Combine($(SolutionDir), ".nuget"))</NuGetToolsPath>     <PackagesConfig>$([System.IO.Path]::Combine($(ProjectDir), "packages.config"))</PackagesConfig> </PropertyGroup>

   I have added the following row:
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   1	<PackagesDir>$(SolutionDir)..\First\packages</PackagesDir>

2. Change the arguments of the NewGetCommand from:
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   1	<RestoreCommand>$(NuGetCommand) install "$(PackagesConfig)" -source "$(PackageSources)" $(RequireConsentSwitch) -solutionDir "$(SolutionDir)</RestoreCommand>

   to:
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   1	<RestoreCommand>$(NuGetCommand) install "$(PackagesConfig)" -source "$(PackageSources)" -o "$(PackagesDir)" $(RequireConsentSwitch) -solutionDir "$(SolutionDir)</RestoreCommand>

   I have added -o "$(PackagesDir)" which should make the packages to be downloaded to the PackagesDir folder
3. To make the configuration more flexible we can change the PackagesDir definition to
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   1	<PackagesDir Condition="'$(PackagesDir)' == ''">$(SolutionDir)..\First\packages</PackagesDir>

   this will allow us to predefine the PackagesDir value in the .csproj.user files.
4. To test this we can add the C:\ NugetConfig\First\Dummy\Dummy.csproj.user with the following content:
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   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Project ToolsVersion="4.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">     <PropertyGroup>         <PackagesDir>C:\NugetConfig\packages</PackagesDir>     </PropertyGroup> </Project>

   This will make the Nuget to get files in the C:\NugetConfig\packages folder.

And here is the code NugetConfig-part-2.zip

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