Update All Experience Explained

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

Deepak Aravindakshan

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

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

Dan Liu

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 ...

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

November 7, 2013 Nov 7, 2013 11/7/13

Dan Liu

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 ...

Package Restore and Consent Changes

October 16, 2013 Oct 16, 2013 10/16/13

Howard Dierking

When NuGet 2.0 released, it included the requirement that in order to use package restore, you first needed to explicitly provide consent to the NuGet client to download packages over the Internet. This requirement added some friction to normal developer workflows, and it added more friction in build and continuous integration sever scenarios...

Invoke the Manage NuGet Packages dialog programmatically

July 25, 2013 Jul 25, 2013 07/25/13

Luan Nguyen

Recently I've been asked several times for how to invoke the Manage NuGet Packages dialog from VS components programmatically, and optionally auto-invoke the search when the dialog opens. Today I'd like to share the solution in this post. It's actually very straightforward. The Manage NuGet Packages menu command is registered as a standard VS...

Package Manager Dialog vs. Package Manager Console, some differences!

May 21, 2013 May 21, 2013 05/21/13

ranjinimathrubootham

One common misconception we see among NuGet users is that NuGet could only install/ update to the latest version of a package in VS. This is due to the fact that through 'NuGet Package Manager Dialog' we only show that latest (stable or prerelease) version of any package. But, NuGet provides the ability to install/ update to any specific ...

Play with Packages, programmatically!

May 20, 2013 May 20, 2013 05/20/13

ranjinimathrubootham

One of the many often seen requests, from developers using NuGet, is examples on our NuGet core APIs. The requests range from finding meta-data for the packages to installing the package programmatically. In this blog post, I will provide a few examples of using NuGet Core APIs. Getting Started To use NuGet Core APIs, install NuGet.Core ...

Where else is NuGet used in Visual Studio?

May 20, 2013 May 20, 2013 05/20/13

Luan Nguyen

All NuGet users are probably familiar with both the Manage NuGet Packages dialog and the Package Manager Console. These are the main user interfaces for installing and managing packages. However, NuGet is also used in a couple of more subtle places. Below are a few of them that I am aware of. With the exception of the New Project dialog, ...

Improved search syntax on nuget.org and in NuGet Visual Studio extension

March 25, 2013 Mar 25, 2013 03/25/13

Luan Nguyen

The NuGet team recently deployed a new and very useful search capability on nuget.org, which allows you to narrow your search to a pariticular attribute of a NuGet package. For example, if you want to search for packages which contain 'elmah' within the Id, you type 'id:elmah'. (Note that this will execute a 'contains' search, not an exact ...

Invoking NuGet Services from inside Visual Studio

September 26, 2012 Sep 26, 2012 09/26/12

Luan Nguyen

One of the best kept secrets of the NuGet extension is that besides the UI that everyone has become familiar with, it also exports some useful services, via MEF, which allow other components in VS to interact with NuGet. These include installing packages, uninstalling packages and querying for installed packages. Over the past year, the NuGet...