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NuGet/Home#5986 (comment)

I've found that you can manually control which .dlls to reference and which .dlls to copy to output from a NuGet package if you turn off all assets on the PackageReference:

<PackageReference Include="Foo.MyPackage" Version="1.0.0" ExcludeAssets="all" GeneratePathProperty="true" />

and then manually reference the .dlls you need:

<Reference Include="$(PkgFoo_MyPackage)\lib\net45\CopyThis.dll">
  <Private>true</Private>
</Reference>
<Reference Include="$(PkgFoo_MyPackage)\lib\net45\DontCopyThis.dll">
  <Private>false</Private>
</Reference>
<None Include="$(PkgFoo_MyPackage)\lib\net45\CopyThisButDontReference.dll">
  <CopyToOutputDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToOutputDirectory>
</None>

Note the usage of GeneratePathProperty on the PackageReference to generate the Pkg*** property, where the package name is prefixed with Pkg and dots replaced with underscores.

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