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Use your Microsoft account to log in to NuGet.org!

December 6, 2013 Dec 6, 2013 12/6/13

Andrew Stanton-Nurse

Starting today you can use your Microsoft account to log in to NuGet.org. I don't know about you, but I want as few passwords as possible, so any opportunity to get rid of a password is great. Now, your NuGet.org password doesn't have to be one of those many passwords you have to forget/lose/etc. To associate a Microsoft account with an ...

NuGet Governance Model

December 6, 2013 Dec 6, 2013 12/6/13

Howard Dierking

Over the last couple of years, we've had the chance to meet with many individuals who both use and contribute to NuGet. One of the questions that has come up on more than one occasion pertains to how decisions get made for NuGet, especially decisions around which features are included in NuGet releases. This is an understandable question, ...

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...

Friendly License Names

October 11, 2013 Oct 11, 2013 10/11/13

Howard Dierking

Yesterday afternoon, we enabled a new feature for both the NuGet gallery and the Visual Studio client (for NuGet >= 2.7) which will display the list of license names for a package in addition to simply providing a link to the license text. The big idea behind this feature is that it will aid in the decision making process over whether or ...

How to use XDT in NuGet – Examples and Facts

September 20, 2013 Sep 20, 2013 09/20/13

Dan Liu

Starting with NuGet 2.6, XML-Document-Transform (XDT) is supported to transform XML files inside a project. The XDT syntax can be utilized in the .install.xdt and .uninstall.xdt file(s) under the package's Content folder, which will be applied during package installation and uninstallation time, respectively. One of XDT’s greatest strengths...

Issues uploading portable library packages [Fixed]

September 10, 2013 Sep 10, 2013 09/10/13

Jeff Handley

Starting September 3rd, some users started having issues uploading packages that contain portable libraries; on September 10th, we deployed a fix to address those issues. Errors Experienced Depending on how you were publishing your package, you would have experienced the errors in a few different ways. Upload Package page on nuget.org If ...

NuGet 2.7 Package Restore Consent Errors

August 29, 2013 Aug 29, 2013 08/29/13

Jeff Handley

After NuGet 2.7 was released with Automatic Package Restore and implicit consent, some users reported that they were still seeing build errors indicating that package restore consent had not been given. When we made the package restore changes in NuGet 2.7, we identified one scenario where this would happen but determined we couldn't implement...

Editing Package Metadata on the NuGet Gallery

August 23, 2013 Aug 23, 2013 08/23/13

Bhuvaneshwari Krishnamurthi

In our next deployment, which is scheduled for the week of August 26th, 2013, we have added the ability to edit package metadata at any point in time before or after publishing the package. This has been one of the frequent requests from package authors. The changes are current dpeloyed @ staging.nuget.org. You can play around with the ...