Check if NuGet packages are publicly available

When creating solutions for a company, you often use an internal package feed. There might come a time when you need to provide the source code to an external party or you want to make the solution open source. If this has ever happened to you, you know one of the first things to validate if all dependencies (NuGet packages) are available to the public. Especially in large corporations it’s easy to use some platform packages used throughout the company but should not be shared with the public. Read more →

Get your references when pulling a project via NuGet

Because of a failing hard drive I had to re-install my Windows installation, including cloning all of my BitBucket repositories back to my projects folder. Getting all the solutions back on the local development machine is very easy, but after opening, I discovered they couldn’t be build anymore. The reason for this: several references were missing. This wasn’t that strange at all, because these references were libraries pulled pulled down via NuGet and not pushed into the repository. Read more →