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.
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I wonder is there a way to make VS 2019 work with nuget repositories?
Usually it works fine, but sometimes occurs the following.
I pushed a package into my nexus enterprise repository, waited a while (package is already in repo), than opened a .csproj file and entered pushed version. VS cannot load a package with error
Failed to retrieve information about '%packagename' from remote
source
'https://nexus****/repository/nuget-group/FindPackagesById()?id='%packagename'&semVerLevel=2.0.0'.
Of course, if a copy the link to browser, it opens ok. I do have access to both nexus and nuget.org, but VS cannot get any package from them - neither through .csproj nor Nuget Manager UI is VS!
Restart machine doesn't matters. dotnet restore also produces the error.
The only thing helpful is to install VS update through the VS Installer.
Today I already installed an update, so I can't do this now.
Is there any way to make this work?
You could try to use nuget.exe to register the source in your machine.
nuget.exe sources Add -Name "source" -Source {Path to the package(s) source}
Then re-start your visual studio.
I looked at Package Manager Output and saw that sometimes a message appeared. The message was someting like 'cannot connect to host because it reject or already has a connection error at xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx'. (My dirty translate from Russian)
But the point is: this IP is neither nexus host nor any intermediate host. I found that is was our old enterprise proxy (because the new one had no access to nuget.org), which is obsolete and unsupported. So, I just deleted proxy section from %APPDATA%/Roaming/Nuget/Nuget.config and at least local nexus became always available for me.
I have a build pipeline configured for a Service Fabric solution on Azure DevOps like this:
Everything was fine until a few days ago when the build started failing on a particular build agent (private), with the following error (for a few projects):
C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\2.1.200\Sdks\Microsoft.NET.Sdk\build\Microsoft.PackageDependencyResolution.targets(327,5): Error : Assets file 'F:\Agent03\w\84\s\src\MyProject.Sam.Tiles.Domain\obj\project.assets.json' not found. Run a NuGet package restore to generate this file.
The failing task is the Build solution $(PathToSolution) one.
The weird thing is that the build fails when running on some agents but with others the build is fine.
Some details:
Use NuGet 4.x task started using NuGet v4.9.1 very recently, I think. I tried using v4.8.1 with no luck;
Most of the projects use the PackageReference format, but the .sfproj project uses the packages.config file
I tried using the dotnet restore task but there is an error when trying to restore the packages for the .sfproj project:
`Error : Unable to find the
'....\packages\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Azure.Fabric.MSBuild.1.6.7\build\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Azure.Fabric.Application.props'
file. Please restore the
'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Azure.Fabric.MSBuild' Nuget package
Any idea on what might be causing this issue?
Some of the projects use the PackageReference format but the .sfproj project uses the packages.config file.
I still don't understand why the build started failing, but I was able to find a workaround. Given that PackageReference is not yet supported in Service Fabric projects, my workaround was to use both restore tasks as follows:
My problem turned out to be a solution that didn't include all the necessary projects.
I have a master solution file that includes all my projects, and a number of smaller solution files with only some of the projects. The master solution built fine in Azure DevOps, but the partial solution failed.
I realized that the missing project.assets.json file belonged to a project that needed to be included in this failing solution.
Trevor's comment on 2/20 gave me the clue. You likely don't have the complete set of projects referenced by the solution. (ProjectReferences may go to other projects, which are not in the solution).
Here is why this crazy workaround (run dotnet.exe and nuget.exe restore tasks) worked:
dotnet restore will walk project references by default to ensure they are restored also.
--no-dependencies switch can turn that off.
nuget.exe restore has the opposite default, because we didn't want to break old users.
-recursive can turn this on.
The right solution is to make your solution contain all the projects.
-Rob Relyea
NuGet Client Team, Engineering Manager
I'm attempting to set up my TeamCity instance as a private NuGet package feed. I have successfully configured the feed and set up a build that publishes artifacts.
However, I'm running into a problem when attempting to install a package in my source code from the TeamCity feed:
By going to the "NuGet Feed" page in TeamCity, I can see that the feed URL is
http://localhost:8080/httpAuth/app/nuget/v1/FeedService.svc/.
I have set my local Visual Studio (running on my local machine, not the TeamCity server) as
http://[my-TC-server]/httpAuth/app/nuget/v1/FeedService.svc/, and I can view the package in the NuGet manager with the expected attributes.
However, when I try to install the package, it fails because the src attribute in the package configuration is still set to http://localhost:8080/httpAuth/app/nuget/v1/FeedService.svc/download/NuGet_[myPackage]/73:id/p[myPackage].nupkg (I can see this by viewing my TeamCity-hosted packages at http://[my-TC-server]/httpAuth/app/nuget/v1/FeedService.svc/Packages()), and the install fails because it is looking on my machine for the package file, and not on the TeamCity server. I assume the src attribute is set at pack time and grabbed from the TeamCity configuration somewhere.
If I navigate to to
http://[my-TC-server]/httpAuth/app/nuget/v1/FeedService.svc/download/NuGet_[myPackage]/73:id/p[myPackage].nupkg
in a browser, I can successfully download the package.
Is it possible to configure the feed URL in TeamCity to be http://[my-TC-server]/httpAuth/app/nuget/v1/FeedService.svc/ so that the src param will also use [my-TC-server] instead of localhost? I can't find an option in TC to do this, and I haven't found any documentation for dealing with this problem.
If it is not possible to configure the feed URL, what would a good solution be so that my local machine can download the package from my TeamCity server?
It was two things:
I needed to configure my TeamCity Server URL (Administration>General Settings)
I was running into this problem with my server's reverse proxy, and running this command on the server fixed the problem (the server was not preserving the Host header in requests)
After those two, everything's all good!
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.