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Deprecating packages on nuget.org

Anand GauravSeptember 30, 2019Sep 30, 201909/30/19

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 le

Migrate to PackageReference with 3 clicks

Karan NandwaniApril 9, 2018Apr 9, 201804/9/18

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 NandwaniMarch 16, 2017Mar 16, 201703/16/17

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 impro

Introducing The NuGet Beta Channel

Harikrishna MenonMay 2, 2016May 2, 201605/2/16

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 q

NuGet 3 – Visual Studio User Interface Discussion

Jeffrey FritzOctober 14, 2015Oct 14, 201510/14/15

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 HandleyOctober 8, 2014Oct 8, 201410/8/14

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 resul

Discontinuing Updates for Visual Studio 2010

Jeff HandleyOctober 2, 2014Oct 2, 201410/2/14

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 AravindakshanDecember 16, 2013Dec 16, 201312/16/13

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 LiuNovember 18, 2013Nov 18, 201311/18/13

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 a

VS hung on installing or updating packages may be related to ReSharper8.1 EAP

Dan LiuNovember 7, 2013Nov 7, 201311/7/13

Recently there have been customer reports of hangs in Visual Studio while installing or updating NuGet packages. It could be related to this issue, if you have ReSharper 8.1 EAP installed. The solution is to update ReSharper to one of the stable versions such as ReSharper 8.1. If it doesn’t solve the issue for you, please report it to us th

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