NuGet ContentFiles Demystified

Jeffrey FritzJanuary 26, 2016Jan 26, 201601/26/16

Updated - Feb 26, 2015: Thanks to Jared Barneck for some suggested edits to add some steps to the sample NuGet creation process In NuGet 3.3, the contentFiles feature was introduced to support project.json managed projects and packages that are indirectly referenced in a project. This was an important change because it brings the ability to d

Accelerate your NuGet.Server

Maarten BalliauwJanuary 13, 2016Jan 13, 201601/13/16

Since its inception, NuGet supports setting up custom package sources. There's the default NuGet Gallery, there's third-party NuGet hosting (see the NuGet Ecosystem), we can use local directories on our hard drive or a network UNC share (like \yourserver\nuget) and there's the NuGet.Server package that we can use to create our own NuGet se