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

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

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 ...

Package Restore and Consent Changes

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

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

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

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!

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

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!

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

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?

Luan Nguyen May 20, 2013 May 20, 2013 05/20/13

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

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

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

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

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...

Recent Changes to Package Restore Consent

Howard Dierking September 7, 2012 Sep 7, 2012 09/7/12

When we released NuGet 2.0, one of the changes included the addition of a privacy-related constraint to the package restore feature. More specifically, NuGet 2.0 required that you provide explicit consent, via either a checkbox in the package manager configuration dialog or an environment variable, before it would successfully download ...

Package Restore and Consent

Howard Dierking May 18, 2012 May 18, 2012 05/18/12

A little while back, our team had the pleasure of talking about NuGet with some privacy experts. These are folks who are passionate about your privacy and laws that protect your privacy. As we were describing NuGet's package restore feature, the privacy experts became interested in the details surrounding the package restore workflow – ...