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NuGet 3.0 Beta Released

February 23, 2015 Feb 23, 2015 02/23/15

Jeffrey Fritz

Its time for the 3.0 beta release for NuGet, and this time we have some much sought-after enhancements in the works for you. You can get access to the update NuGet binaries on Codeplex and through the Visual Studio extension manager. We are only releasing these preview bits for Visual Studio 2013 (on CodePlex only) and for Visual Studio 2015. ...

Package Signing

February 3, 2015 Feb 3, 2015 02/3/15

Karan Nandwani

Package signing has been a major discussion point for a long time in the NuGet ecosystem. However, the NuGet Team didn't want to rush into an implementation and end up creating something that restricted the ecosystem unnecessarily. Well, we now think we are ready to begin a process to introduce Package Signing, and we want to share our plans ...

Introducing the NuGet PowerShell Commands Survey

December 3, 2014 Dec 3, 2014 12/3/14

Jeffrey Fritz

You've probably seen the cool announcements from Microsoft about the new Community Edition of Visual Studio and the upcoming Visual Studio 2015 release in the new year. We at the NuGet team have been ramping up our tools to support the new Visual Studio with a better visual experience and a better command-line experience. We've also released ...

NuGet 3.0 Preview

November 12, 2014 Nov 12, 2014 11/12/14

Jeff Handley

On November 12, 2014, as part of the Visual Studio 2015 Preview release, we released NuGet 3.0 Preview. This is a big release for us (albeit a preview), and we're excited to start getting feedback on our changes. Visual Studio 2012+ This NuGet 3.0 Preview is included in Visual Studio 2015 Preview. We are working to get preview drops out for ...

Package Manifests

October 23, 2014 Oct 23, 2014 10/23/14

Jeff Handley

As we work on the designs for getting NuGet in the platform, it has become clear that NuGet needs better support for carrying arbitrary artifacts in packages and exposing them for consumption after the initial package installation. Conventional Manifests Since NuGet's initial release, it has supported conventional manifests and only a few ...

NuGet: In the Platform

October 14, 2014 Oct 14, 2014 10/14/14

The NuGet Team

I recently declared that NuGet is "Broken By Design." Now, that was hyperbolic; I don't really think NuGet is broken. In fact, I'm very pleased with NuGet (and proud of it). But I wanted to make the point that NuGet's approach both earned it success but also came at a cost. NuGet can't presently offer some expected package management features ...

NuGet : Broken By Design

October 10, 2014 Oct 10, 2014 10/10/14

The NuGet Team

On January 13, 2011, NuGet 1.0 was released with ASP.NET MVC 3. On June 19, 2012, NuGet 2.0 shipped in the box with all editions of Visual Studio 2012 (including the free ones). That was a little over 2 years ago, and NuGet's adoption has been steadily increasing since then. Here are some interesting figures for recent NuGet usage from nuget....

Visual Studio Tooling Guidance

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

Jeff Handley

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

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

Jeff Handley

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 ...

Target Framework Filtering and a Pending Breaking Change

October 1, 2014 Oct 1, 2014 10/1/14

Andrew Stanton-Nurse

Have you ever seen this error before? (image) Doesn't it make you want to yell and scream at NuGet, "Why did you just show it to me if I couldn't install it!?‽" Yeah, it makes us want to yell and scream too, so we decided to set about fixing it! Along with that, we've also discovered a bug we want to correct but unfortunately, it's a ...