The NuGet Blog

Friendly License Names

October 11, 2013 Oct 11, 2013 10/11/13

Howard Dierking

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 ...

Editing Package Metadata on the NuGet Gallery

August 23, 2013 Aug 23, 2013 08/23/13

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 ...

Introducing NuGet Concierge

August 16, 2013 Aug 16, 2013 08/16/13

Jeff Handley

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 ...

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

April 19, 2013 Apr 19, 2013 04/19/13

Andrew Stanton-Nurse

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 ...

Recent NuGet Gallery Updates

April 11, 2013 Apr 11, 2013 04/11/13

Jeff Handley

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

February 26, 2013 Feb 26, 2013 02/26/13

Jeff Handley

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. (image...

Managing Package Owners on nuget.org

February 5, 2013 Feb 5, 2013 02/5/13

Jeff Handley

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 ...

Results of NuGet CDN Experiment

August 10, 2012 Aug 10, 2012 08/10/12

Howard Dierking

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 ...

Help Us Test CDN for NuGet.org

August 2, 2012 Aug 2, 2012 08/2/12

Howard Dierking

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been investigating whether to turn on the content delivery network (CDN) feature of the Azure blob storage container for NuGet packages. In theory, this would make package downloads faster – especially if you’re located outside of the United States. We want your help to conduct an experiment to measure the...