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A new search experience on the Gallery

Andrew Stanton-NurseApril 11, 2014Apr 11, 201404/11/14

For a while now, we've been working on some major improvements to search. Last week we deployed these improvements to production on http://www.nuget.org. In this post, I'll describe how the new service works. However, before we discuss the new service, let's step back a bit and discuss the history of Search on NuGet.org Search via SQL Our fi

Use your Microsoft account to log in to NuGet.org!

Andrew Stanton-NurseDecember 6, 2013Dec 6, 201312/6/13

Starting today you can use your Microsoft account to log in to NuGet.org. I don't know about you, but I want as few passwords as possible, so any opportunity to get rid of a password is great. Now, your NuGet.org password doesn't have to be one of those many passwords you have to forget/lose/etc. To associate a Microsoft account with an exist

Friendly License Names

Howard DierkingOctober 11, 2013Oct 11, 201310/11/13

Yesterday afternoon, we enabled a new feature for both the NuGet gallery and the Visual Studio client (for NuGet >= 2.7) which will display the list of license names for a package in addition to simply providing a link to the license text. The big idea behind this feature is that it will aid in the decision making process over whether or no

Editing Package Metadata on the NuGet Gallery

Bhuvaneshwari KrishnamurthiAugust 23, 2013Aug 23, 201308/23/13

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 featur

Introducing NuGet Concierge

Jeff HandleyAugust 16, 2013Aug 16, 201308/16/13

Twelve weeks ago, Microsoft's Azure Applications Platform & Tools team welcomed three 2nd-year college students, Jaspreet Bagga, Jeremiah Jekich, and Melissa McNeill, and gave them an opportunity to contribute to NuGet. Package Discovery Discovering NuGet packages can be a daunting process. The best way to do so is either via word of mou

Goodbye preview.nuget.org. Hello staging.nuget.org!

Andrew Stanton-NurseApril 19, 2013Apr 19, 201304/19/13

TL;DR The preview.nuget.org site is going away. Switch to staging.nuget.org by April 26th! Goodbye preview.nuget.org We have a version of the NuGet Gallery called "Preview" and it's been hosted at preview.nuget.org since early in the Gallery's lifetime. Until recently, our QA team used preview.nuget.org to do their testing, but we've also oc

Recent NuGet Gallery Updates

Jeff HandleyApril 11, 2013Apr 11, 201304/11/13

The NuGet Gallery crew has gotten into a rhythm of publishing updates every 2 weeks. With the increased update frequency, we found that we needed to create a changelog to highlight new features. That changelog is now available directly from within our source repository on GitHub. You can access the changelog directly here: https://github.com/

Introducing Package Statistics

Jeff HandleyFebruary 26, 2013Feb 26, 201302/26/13

We have introduced a new feature on http://nuget.org where you can see download statistics for packages. With this initial drop, we hope to whet your appetite and collect your input on further statistics features; it's a mere fraction of what we can imagine. Statistics Tab At the top of the site, a new 'Statistics' tab is displayed. This

Managing Package Owners on nuget.org

Jeff HandleyFebruary 5, 2013Feb 5, 201302/5/13

While each NuGet package's nuspec metadata defines the package's owner(s), the NuGet gallery at nuget.org ignores that piece of nuspec metadata. Instead, ownership of a package is defined by who publishes the package to the gallery. Sometimes this metadata needs to be managed beyond the initial package publishing too, which means the owner met

Results of NuGet CDN Experiment

Howard DierkingAugust 10, 2012Aug 10, 201208/10/12

A little over a week ago, we asked for your help with an experimentt that we were conducting to see whether there was value in enabling CDN support for our packages blob storage container. Over 100 of you responded from all over the world, and the data that you provided made it pretty clear that there was sufficient justification for turning o