This is more of a note to myself post, but last week I had the need to create a metapackage (a package without any contents, one that just references other packages). It was a really long time ago since I did that 👴Like in the pre dotnet CLI age, where you manually created the .nuspec files. Can't…
Daniel Wertheim
I was in the need of hosting an on premise NuGet server. I didn't want it hosted in IIS but self-hosted. Previously I've had good experience with ProGet so my first take was to try their free version [https://inedo.com/proget/pricing#pg-free]. I had a minor issue with Windows Defender complaining du…
Daniel Wertheim
While putting together some NuGets for some portable class libraries I found my self a bit lost of what target string to use. One way to find some guidance is the use the NuGet Package explorer [http://npe.codeplex.com/] to build up the NuSpec, but I found another source, which felt like a real life…
Daniel Wertheim
Found my self putting up projects that were duplicates of other projects when it came to the NuGets that should be installed in the projects. There were no template and no “master” NuGet to install so every one needed to be added manually. But there’s of course a simpler way that takes seconds (if y…
Daniel Wertheim
As you probably know, I’ve recently started to write on a new OSS project, MyCouch – the async .Net client for .Net [https://github.com/danielwertheim/MyCouch/wiki]. It’s still quite young and was recently only targeting .Net4.5 and its async HTTPClient. But thanks to excellent work of Microsoft,…
Daniel Wertheim