NuGet
I wrote about NuGet a few months ago. After using it extensively for quite some time, I’m not sure how much I like it. It is really great for handling and maintaining external libraries. In fact, you can even establish your own shared libraries to be published on NuGet for others, or independently in house.
I use Nuget to handle references to my favorite third party libraries such as NUnit, log4net, etc. NuGet manages the process of maintaining the correct release of external libraries, and making them available to the projects I direct it to manage.
My problem is it doesn’t seem to play well with TFS (Team Foundation Server). At this point we haven’t been able to determine what the cause of our issues may be. We check code into TFS. Someone else gets latest, and the project becomes corrupted in the NuGet libraries.
There are lots of blogs on possible solutions, etc. But for crying out loud, TFS and NuGet are two products from the same company. They should play well together right out of the box. I shouldn’t have to dig for how to fix tools that are supposed to be for developers to do their daily work.
Rather than rant about issues with this great product, because it is really a great tool that can simplify my life a lot, I thought I’d throw out the question, “Are you having success with Nuget?”
Drop me a note at btaylor@sswug.org with your experience.
Cheers,
Ben
$$SWYNK$$
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