How to Create a NuGet Package that Runs your Console App as an MSBuild Task

By following this article, you will learn how to create NuGet Packages that utilize MSBuild ExecTask to run your Before or After specific Build Targets. This article (and the templates) only address C#, but can easily be applied to any .NET language because the important bits are language agnostic. The templates are written for .NET Core 3.1, but can easily be adapted to legacy .NET Frameworks or .NET 5. This is the same method used by NuGetDefense.