Is there a way to add a package to a project when this package is already added to another project? I would like to avoid depending on the net because sometimes we are require to work in a non connected scenario.
I know I can simple add a reference and browse, but I suspect I will loose the ability to update automatically the reference in the future.
One way to be able to work with NuGet in a non-connected state, is to supply an alternative package source, either locally on your own computer, or on a machine on your internal network. You can add new package sources in Visual Studio through Tools > Options > Package Manager > Package Sources.
We do this ourselves for two reasons:
With a local package source you can work without an internet connection.
With a local package source and the official NuGet package source disabled, we have better control of which packages are available. This way will we for instance avoid undesired updates in our development group until we've approved them.
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We currently don't use nuget for our dependencies, preferring to go old-skool way and stick them all in a libs folder and reference from there. I know. So 1990's.
Anyway, nuget has always made me feel a bit queasy... you know, reliance on the cloud and all that. As such, I'm find myself in the main agreeing with Mark Seeman (see here: http://blog.ploeh.dk/2014/01/29/nuget-package-restore-considered-harmful/) who says:
Personally, I always disable the feature and instead check in all packages in my repositories. This never gives me any problems.
Trouble is, this has changed in version 3, you can't store packages alongside the solution, as outlined here: https://oren.codes/2016/02/08/project-json-all-the-things/. Which sorta screws up checking them into source code.
So, am I worrying about nothing here? Should I drink from the nuget well, or side with Mr Seeman and er on the side of caution?
Storing NuGet packages in source control is a really, really bad idea.
I accidentally did it once and I ended up bloating my source code considerably, and that was before .NET Core...
Drink deep from the NuGet well. Most software components are packaged in a similar way these days (NPM, Bower etc). The referenced blog post is two years old and package management is changing rapidly in the .NET world, so here's some of my experience lately.
NuGet packages can't be deleted from nuget.org. They can be hidden,
but if your application requests a hidden package it will download it
as normal. It'll never disappear into the void.
'Enable Package Restore' is no longer glitchy because it's now a default option in NuGet 2.7+. You have no choice anymore.
Packages are no longer stored per solution but per machine, which will save a ton of bandwidth and will decrease the initial fetch period when building.
If you build a new project using .NET Core, you will have dozens more packages as the entire BCL will be available as NuGet packages. Do you really want to check-in all the System.* packages into source code?
There is a very simple reason why you want to store Nuget packages in source control. Your organization doesn't want your build server to have internet access.
I want to create a NuGet package from a machine that is on the office intranet, but blocks all connections to the internet.
Both NuGetPackageExplorer.application and NuGet.exe will show the exception that "No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it".
Installing packages works fine as we have a local network folder with the .nupkg packages we use.
Is there a tool I can use to create a NuGet package on that machine?
Update:
I created a issue on codeplex for this: https://nuget.codeplex.com/workitem/3196
What I ended up doing is downloading the source code from CodePlex, going into the CommandLine project, deleting UpdateCommand.cs, and rebuilding the project. I then grabbing the exe which I renamed NuGetOffline.exe and put it along with NuGet.Core.dll to somewhere in the Path.
Update
The download page for NuGet does not have the current version of NuGet.exe. As of writing this, none of the three downloads on the page work offline and the Other Downloads have several version of Nuget.Tools, but not the current version of NuGet.exe. Go here instead for nuget.exe. Use that instead of that custom build.
The Package Explorer link on the download page is just the ClickOnce installer which does work offline. You need to find the local executable here.
I haven't been able to get "Enable NuGet Package Restore" to work on the intranet. This closed work item describes the problem. The last comment says that "2.0 should no longer run into this issue", but I am using NuGet Package Manager 2.2.400116.9051.
My aim is to have package restore working on a build server so that I don't have to check in binaries. At the moment, I'm simply trying to get it to work on my own machine using Visual Studio.
Here's what I've done so far:
Followed the instructions here http://docs.nuget.org/docs/workflows/using-nuget-without-committing-packages, including both setting the Tools-Options flag and the environment variable (belt and braces)
Installed the NuGetEnablePackageRestore package as suggested here NuGet package restore consent without NuGet
Checked everything in (the .nuget solution folder and its contents), but not the binaries I want to reference, because that's the whole point of the exercise
Here's what I'm doing:
Check out solution
Verify that nunit.framework.dll and moq.dll are not present in the checked out solution
Build the solution
Visual Studio complains that Moq is missing. I search for the dlls in the solution directory and find that:
nunit.framework.dll is present in the appropriate bin folders
Moq.dll is nowhere to be found
But there's more. This is truly mysterious, but if I do a fresh checkout, disconnect from the internet and build, I get precisely the same results - nunit.framework.dll is there, but moq.dll is not. The build process has conjured nunit.framework.dll literally from nowhere.
So it's something of an understatement to say that I am completely baffled. Can anyone suggest answers to the following questions:
Why is package restore not downloading Moq?
Where on earth is the build process getting nunit.framework.dll, if not the internet?
In vs, Options, Package Manager... there's a section "Package Cache", if you click on the "Browse" button it will take you to the location of the nuget cache in your machine.
Okay, I noticed in the documentation that enabling package restore was supposed to modify project files in order to add a new target. My project files did not have this change. Right-clicking the solution title in VS and selecting 'Manage NuGet packages...' then added the required changes and everything built as it should.
I checked, and package restore still appears to work when I have no internet access, so I'm still mystified about that. Does NuGet maintain some kind of cache of binaries outside the solution?
Is there a way to load a package from an alternative server when Visual Studio Package Manager (NuGet) is responding with a "The remote server returned an error: (503) Server Unavailable" message?
This is an obscure condition that will likely only occur on an "enterprisy" network environment. If these conditions apply you:
you are required to access the Internet via an HTTP proxy server
the HTTP proxy server requires a valid user ID & password (or AD authentication) to allow requests to proceed
you've been messing with cool developer tools that were ported to Windows from a Linux/Unix environment
the new cool tool(s) work after adding the HTTP_PROXY (or possibly HTTPS_PROXY or both) environment variable(s)
you can access the NuGet servers from a browser without getting a 503 error
Then it's likely you broke NuGet by inadvertently invoking this configuration feature. I'm not sure exactly how the environment variable breaks NuGet but I suspect NuGet is detecting & using the http_proxy URL but sending an empty user ID & password which causes the HTTP proxy to reject the request.
Fix: remove the environment variable(s) you added and see if the cool tool can be configured to use an HTTP proxy without them.
Update: Ran into a version of this issue with the NuGet config file referenced in the "this configuration feature" link above. Open this file:
%appdata%\nuget\nuget.config
in your favorite editor. If it contains elements with http_proxy or https_proxy then removing these elements may fix the issue too.
PS: Hopefully I'll get an up vote from Colonel Panic :-)
If you have used the package in the past it is probably in your cache. You can add the local cache as an available package source by going into the Library Package Manager Settings under the Tools menu in Visual Studio. For Visual Studio 2012, choose Tools, Library Package Manager, Package Manager Settings, and then click on Package Sources.
In the Available package sources section, type a name like "Cache" and then in for the source, browse to %LocalAppData%\NuGet\Cache. You may need to use Windows Explorer to translate %LocalAppData%\NuGet\Cache into the full path (usually C:\Users\YourAccountName\AppData\Local\NuGet\Cache).
Once you have the Cache as an available source, you can now use the Package Manager Console (found under the View menu under Other Windows or also under the Tools menu under Library Package Manager).
From the Console (which is a PowerShell window with commandlets for NuGet) you can type "get-help NuGet" to see available commands.
Then using Get-Package, you can get a list of Package ID's. Make sure the "Package source" is set to "Cache" (or whatever you called it) and the Default project is set to the project you need manipulate, both of these are dropdowns located at the top of the Page Manager Console. You can also use the Get-Project to verify you are working against the correct project in your solution.
Finally, you can type Install-Package and when prompted enter the Package ID from the output of the Get-Package commandlet.
i had also this problem, it was becouse of my network.
if you have any blocking on your Internet, (like in companies internet or etc..)
you may not allowed to download the nuget package.
try to download the package in another network, maybe it can help you!
Talbott's answer did not work for me, as my cache was empty. However, if you have used the package in another solution, you can copy the items you want from the "packages" folder in the other solution to a packages folder in your target solution.
If you have no packages installed in the target solution, you may need to add the following to a repositories.xml file in the packages folder:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<repositories>
</repositories>
After doing that, the packages appeared to be installed in my solution and I was able to add them to projects.
Additional Note: I had to use the "Manage NuGet Packages for Solution" option at the solution level to add the package to individual projects. Using Install-Package from the console still returns a 503 even though the packages is already installed in the solution.
You can also get this error if you are using a VPN client (e.g. Cisco AnyConnect) and you have recently renewed your VPN certificate. The issue can occur after you have updated your certificate, but before you have rebooted. A reboot resolves the issue.
It is a pretty old question, but I have just encountered the same problem. In my case it occurred because I had more than one nuget package source configured in the Visual Studio Package Manager. In my company we use NuGet to get mainstream packages and MyGet for our own stuff.
When I attempted to pull a pretty big package it failed with a 503 code and the error link looked pretty odd, it had MyGet in it istead of NuGet. Turns out Visual Studio package manager tried to pull it from another source despite having NuGet chosen as a current source. Disabling other sources and then proceeding with a download fixed it.
Hopefully it will help somebody who stumbled upon this thread just like I did.
Another possible reason for recieving 503: If you're using Azure DevOps feed, then NuGet packages are limited to 500 MB.
I'm currently looking at NuGet to solve my dependency problems in TFS and what I wanted to do is to host my own NuGet server that would take care of internal dependencies. I also want to use NuGet to handle my 3rd party dependencies as well. I'm trying to set up automated builds for our company and this is one roadblock I'm trying to overcome with NuGet.
So my question is how do I handle this scenario in which I have to retrieve my dependencies from different servers?
Is there a better way to handle internal dependencies? How is everyone else doing this?
Also just as a note I intend on using NuGet without committing packages to TFS. I planned on using the method outline in this article:
http://blog.davidebbo.com/2011/08/easy-way-to-set-up-nuget-to-restore.html
Glad you're looking into the no commit scenario for NuGet packages on TFS. You can take a look at my blog post on this topic where I explain the concept.
EDIT (2012/06/13): NuGetPowerTools is replaced by NuGet's built-in package restore functionality. However, same concept of changing the PackageSources element in nuget.targets still applies.
You definitely should take a look at David Fowler's NuGetPowerTools.
After installing this package, you can Enable-PackageRestore (newly installed command in Package Manager Console), which will add...
Enabling package restore will add MSBuild targets to your project files. These MSBuild targets will trigger nuget.exe in a pre-build step and fetch any packages required by your project.
No need to check-in NuGet packages in source control, all you need is the packages.config and these msbuild tasks.
To configure multiple, different package sources, you need to set some settings to be used by these MSBuild tasks. One of them is PackageSources. You can set it by editing the NuGet.targets file, which you will find in the .nuget folder once you enabled package restore.
Regarding those package sources, you could set up different internal NuGet galleries, or simply set up different network shares to be used. This is a matter of requirements and preference, so you can choose. All you need to do, is to tell your msbuild targets to use these packagesources. The order in which you define them, will be the order of lookup of packages as well.
Good luck!
Xavier
Little update on accepted answer and question:
When using TFS as a buildmachine without visual studio installed on it, you can do the following so the buildmachine automatically uses your custom packageSources (more than 1 in the same solution) without any further configuration of packagesources in your solution.
Create a machine default config by placing a NuGet.Config in the root ( C:\NuGet.Config ) by using sample from: http://docs.nuget.org/docs/reference/nuget-config-file
Comment out the line with: <add key="repositorypath" value="$\External\Packages" />
Otherwise your packages gets expanded in C:\$\External\packages\'. When commented out, the config gets chained and the right directory will be used.
Config your needed packagesource(s).
For more Info about other options (e.g. user specifc) see: http://docs.nuget.org/docs/reference/nuget-config-file (bottom of the page).