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Getting Started With NuGet 5.8

Jon Douglas November 13, 2020 Nov 13, 2020 11/13/20

NuGet 5.8 is one of many releases in our .NET unification journey. Our NuGet tooling helps developers discover new .NET packages to use for their .NET applications, while making package management easier during your daily development.

Deprecating packages on nuget.org

Anand Gaurav September 30, 2019 Sep 30, 2019 09/30/19

We are excited to announce that nuget.org now supports package deprecation. This has been a long standing ask that will help the ecosystem use supported packages. As a package publisher on nuget.org, you can now deprecate packages that are obsolete, legacy, or buggy. You can also suggest an alternate package to your deprecated package. This ...

Migrate to PackageReference with 3 clicks

Karan Nandwani April 9, 2018 Apr 9, 2018 04/9/18

Last year, we introduced the option to make PackageReference the default package management format for managing NuGet dependencies when installing the first NuGet package for a newly created projects. With Visual Studio Version 15.7 Preview 3, we have introduced the capability to migrate existing projects that use the packages.config format to...

NuGet is now fully integrated into MSBuild

Karan Nandwani March 16, 2017 Mar 16, 2017 03/16/17

In the past, NuGet packages were managed in two different ways - packages.config and project.json - each with their own sets of advantages and limitations. With Visual Studio 2017 and .NET Core, we have improved the NuGet package management experience by introducing the PackageReference feature in MSBuild. PackageReference brings new and ...

Introducing The NuGet Beta Channel

Harikrishna Menon May 2, 2016 May 2, 2016 05/2/16

Today, we would like to introduce you to the NuGet Beta Channel for the Visual Studio 2015 NuGet Package Manager. In the last 2 months, we have been focusing on improving the quality of the package management experience in Visual Studio 2015 and we have released over 3 consecutive versions of the package manager with added features, improved ...

NuGet 3 – Visual Studio User Interface Discussion

Jeffrey Fritz October 14, 2015 Oct 14, 2015 10/14/15

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...

Visual Studio Tooling Guidance

Jeff Handley October 8, 2014 Oct 8, 2014 10/8/14

As NuGet continues to gain momentum, more Microsoft teams have been seeking to install NuGet packages from their Visual Studio tooling. This began with ASP.NET, where NuGet was born, when project templates started coming with pre-installed NuGet packages. More recently, we've heard of teams all across Microsoft with tooling gestures that ...

Discontinuing Updates for Visual Studio 2010

Jeff Handley October 2, 2014 Oct 2, 2014 10/2/14

As we work on some big changes for NuGet 3.x, we're finding that we're at a crossroads: Should we use .NET 4.5 and improve our Visual Studio UI using new features available in Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio 2013, and Visual Studio "14"; or should we retain support for Visual Studio 2010? Visual Studio 2010 has been supported since NuGet's ...

Update All Experience Explained

Deepak Aravindakshan December 16, 2013 Dec 16, 2013 12/16/13

While working on NuGet 2.8, we addressed some bugs dealing with the "Update All" behavior, where a single gesture will update all packages in the project. During the testing of those fixes, another bug was filed stating, After using Update All, packages remain in the Updates list. We have decided to mark that bug as "By Design" for now and get...

Starting Manage NuGet Packages for Solution dialog for projects under SourceGear Vault – issue and workaround

Dan Liu November 18, 2013 Nov 18, 2013 11/18/13

There has been reports that VS hangs when Manage NuGet Packages for Solution menu item is clicked. When VS responds again, it reports the following error: "Loading the projects is required to complete the requested action. If you click the Cancel button, project loading will continue in the background, and you can try to perform the action ...

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