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Aug 30, 2013
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NuGet 2.7 Package Restore Tips

Jeff Handley [MSFT]
Jeff Handley [MSFT]

Since the release of NuGet 2.7 with Automatic Package Restore and implicit consent, many developers have adopted the new approach and provided some great feedback on their experiences. Based on that feedback, we have collected a set of tips to help you start using the new restore features. Using Automatic Package Restore Even though package restore...

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Aug 29, 2013
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NuGet 2.7 Package Restore Consent Errors

Jeff Handley
Jeff Handley

After NuGet 2.7 was released with Automatic Package Restore and implicit consent, some users reported that they were still seeing build errors indicating that package restore consent had not been given. When we made the package restore changes in NuGet 2.7, we identified one scenario where this would happen but determined we couldn't implement a fi...

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Aug 28, 2013
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Introducing NuGet Concierge

Mads Kristensen
Mads Kristensen

Twelve weeks ago, the Azure Applications Platform & Tools team welcomed us, three college sophomores, Jaspreet Bagga, Jeremiah Jekich, and Melissa McNeill, to Microsoft. As Explorer Interns, we were given the opportunity to experience the three primary disciplines here at Microsoft: Program Manager, Software Development Engineer, and Software ...

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Aug 27, 2013
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NuGet Package Restore with Team Foundation Build

Immo Landwerth
Immo Landwerth

Note: This post is now also part of the official NuGet documentation. In this post, I’ll provide a walkthrough on how to use package restore with Team Foundation Build with both, git as well TF version control. In our previous blog post on how we improved package restore, I showed that NuGet 2.7 and Microsoft.Bcl.Build made restoring packages...

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Aug 27, 2013
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NuGet 2.7 Released

DeepakVerma
DeepakVerma

The NuGet team is excited to announce NuGet 2.7 release, for details please see the release notes published on docs.nuget.org.NuGet 2.7 Features Note that with NuGet 2.7, we have removed support for Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone due to technical limitations related to the new automatic package restore. A separate download is...

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Aug 26, 2013
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Update: Knockout IntelliSense Highlight Bug Fix

VKichline
VKichline

In an earlier blog post on June 24th entitled Knockout IntelliSense Highlighting Bug Fix I described a bug fix in the Knockout IntelliSense feature. In that post I recommended installing Windows Azure SDK for .NET (VS 2012) – 2.0 to acquire the fix since it did not make it into any of the Visual Studio Updates for 2012. Several customers hav...

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Aug 23, 2013
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Editing Package Metadata on the NuGet Gallery

Bhuvaneshwari Krishnamurthi
Bhuvaneshwari Krishnamurthi

In our next deployment, which is scheduled for the week of August 26th, 2013, we have added the ability to edit package metadata at any point in time before or after publishing the package. This has been one of the frequent requests from package authors. The changes are current dpeloyed @ staging.nuget.org. You can play around with the feature in ...

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Aug 22, 2013
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Web Publishing a simpler way to exclude files/folders from being published

Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi

I’ve written a few blog posts on how to exclude files from publishing/packaging. In each of these posts you’d have to be familiar with MSBuild and the Web Publish process. I’ve been looking for a much simpler way to exclude files/folder from publishing. When using git you can easily exclude files and folders using a .gitignore file. Inside the .gi...

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Aug 22, 2013
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Portable Compression is now stable

Immo Landwerth
Immo Landwerth

Today we are happy to announce that our portable compression library is now available as a stable NuGet package. Microsoft.Bcl.Compression Microsoft.Bcl.Compression provides the following APIs in a portable fashion: It’s supported on the following platforms: .NET 4.5 and .NET for Windows Store apps already ship compres...

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Aug 22, 2013
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Improved Package Restore

Immo Landwerth
Immo Landwerth

As we’ve previously explained we receive various reports on how our NuGet packages don’t play nicely with NuGet’s package restore feature. In this blog post I’ll talk about an update we shipped to our infrastructure package Microsoft.Bcl.Build that reduces the impact. The Issue To recap, some of our packages need to participate in the build in or...

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