Jeffrey Fritz

Introducing NuGet 3.4

March 30th, 2016

The NuGet team is happy to introduce version 3.4 and 3.4.1 of the NuGet clients for Visual Studio 2015. We shipped v3.4 with Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 and immediately followed that with the 3.4.1 release to address a small set of issues that were identified after Visual Studio bundled the NuGet 3.4 release. There were three main areas that ...

Announcing NuGet 3.4 RC

March 8th, 2016

After several months of measuring, tuning, and testing, the NuGet team would like to announce version 3.4 RC of the NuGet clients for Visual Studio 2015 and the command-line. There were three main areas that the team focused on for this version: We think you'll find these updates a welcome change that improves your day-to-day ...

NuGet ContentFiles Demystified

January 26th, 2016

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 ...

NuGet Targets for Project.Json now open source

January 19th, 2016

A question that comes up from time to time is: how does Visual Studio 2015 add references when using project.json files in conjunction with a csproj without modifying the csproj file? This is a good question and demonstrates some of our strategy to help make NuGet easier to integrate into project systems without having to teach NuGet how to ...

NuGet 3.3 Release

November 18th, 2015

Big news: a new version of the NuGet clients has been released! This is version 3.3 of the client, with a new command-line and Visual Studio 2015 extension available for use. Use the above links to download from the NuGet distribution site, also accessible with the 'Downloads' menu item above. This is a release that the NuGet team worked ...

NuGet 3 – Visual Studio User Interface Discussion

October 14th, 2015

We want to continue our discussion of the recent changes made to the NuGet experience with the v3 releases, and in this second blog post of the series we are going to focus on the user interface updates that were made for Visual Studio 2015. I touched on it briefly in our last blog post about What and Why, but this time lets go a little deeper...

NuGet 3.2.1-RC and NuGet 2.9-RC released

October 12th, 2015

Today we are releasing nuget.exe 3.2.1-RC and NuGet 2.9-RC. A number of issues were identified in both versions that prevented interoperability on Linux and OSX operating systems. We also made some fixes to 3.2 in order to reduce network utilization. Changes Below are the top highlights of these releases 2.9-RC The complete 2.9 issue...

NuGet 3 – What and Why?

October 8th, 2015

Since Visual Studio 2015 was released in July, developers have started using a new version of NuGet, NuGet 3 We decided to introduce a number of significant changes based on feedback from the community. With any major version change, some things break… and usually for a good reason. We have bugs and issues that we are addressing and want to ...

Package Content and Removals

October 7th, 2015

The NuGet community is awesome; involved and eager to build software to make it easy for use in bigger projects that the components and libraries that they themselves are building. Every now and again, community members can get a little too eager. This post is going to address a recent issue that was presented to the NuGet.org administrators...

Announcing the NuGet 3.2 release

September 16th, 2015

Today we are publishing the version 3.2 updates to the NuGet clients. We took customer feedback regarding issues and feature direction and assembled this release to address those immediate concerns. There are fixes available for a number of blocking issues and adds support for push and list for compliant V3 servers. We also added support for ...