Joining Microsoft
It's been over 7 years since I joined RealDolmen, one of Belgium's larger consultancy firms. I got to meet many interesting folks and had a wide variation in...
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2015
2014
Deploying the ASP.NET KRuntime Beta1 to Azure Websites
Unless you lived under a rock during the last few days, you should know by now that Microsoft shipped a Preview of VS2015 with support for ASP.NET vNext. Suc...
Using MyGet as a OneGet package source
At the Build conference, Microsoft announced the Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview which includes Windows PowerShell 5.0, updates to the PowerShell IS...
Semantic Versioning: State your intentions please!
I'm quite a fan of Semantic Versioning (SemVer). It is the most pragmatic approach towards software versioning that I know of. If you don't know about SemVer...
Migrate away from MSBuild-based NuGet package restore
Back in the days...
2013
Awarded MVP Visual Studio ALM
I was quite thrilled and surprised yesterday to receive an email notification with the subject "Congratulations 2013 Microsoft MVP!".
Install-NuSpec with IntelliSense
If you have quite a few projects you want to get out on NuGet for the first time, it can be a little confusing to find a good starting point. My recommendati...
How to: NuGet Package Restore when sharing projects between solutions
Although it is a situation I try to avoid, it is not uncommon to share project files between solutions. If you are using NuGet package restore on these solut...
Commit, Push, Consume: continuous delivery of ReSharper extensions
I've recently announced my ReSharper Razor plugin and published the EAP package to the brand new ReSharper Plugin feed. I've originally built it against the ...
A ReSharper plugin to detect suspicious semicolons in Razor views
I must admit, every now and then I find myself typing yet another semicolon in one of my razor views. I usually also hit the backspace key immediately after....
Semantic Versioning & auto-incremented NuGet package versions
Any NuGet package is uniquely identified by a package ID and a version. If you've been to one of my talks or follow my blog, you know I'm quite a fan of sema...
Deploying to Azure Web Sites using NuGet package restore from a secured feed
Update: This post pre-dates NuGet v2.7 which changed the NuGet package restore flow (it is now by default no longer part of the MSBuild process, but runs b...
Introducing a NuGet.exe extension for Package Source Discovery
As we have reached 1500 NuGet feeds on MyGet for the first time – with some great stuff in our Gallery - we felt it's about time we make it even easier for p...
NuGet Package Analysis: Encouraging Semantic Versioning
If you've been in one of my recent talks or follow my blog or Twitter ramblings, you might have noticed I'm quite a fan of adhering to the Semantic Versionin...
Warm Crocodile Conference slides
I'm really happy I got the opportunity to talk at the Danish Warm Crocodile Conference this week. I loved the enthousiasm and interactivity with the audience...
Team Foundation Services Binaries folder
In order to add some custom post-build steps to a TFS Build process, it usually comes in handy - might sound as a surprise - to get a hold on the produced ou...
Exit 2012, Enter 2013
I'm usually not the guy who spends too much time looking at the past, but 2012 has been so much fun I can't resist the temptation of summing up what I've enj...
2012
NuGet Package Restore using solution-specific NuGet.config
In my post on how to restore packages from a secured feed, I already anticipated an important fix in the upcoming 2.2 release of NuGet to further facilitate ...
NuGet Package Restore from a secured feed
One of the most frequently asked questions at MyGet is the following one (we have pending updates to our FAQ section):
Update project templates to the latest NuGet packages
Today I noticed a question on StackOverflow that proved I wasn't the only one finding it a little sub-optimal having to update NuGet packages right after cre...
NuGet & TFS Preview: a challenging combination
I've recently spent some time trying to come up with an end-to-end demo of using NuGet on TFS Preview, and I wanted to share you my findings.
Debugging NuGet Package Restore
Package Restore Internals
Setting up your own SymbolSource Server: step-by-step
Edit: This post is rather out-dated, and I would now recommend you get yourself out of the symbols server hosting business, and instead, use MyGet's Symbol S...
Distributing .NET Licensed components using NuGet
If you are building components that are licensed using the .NET Licensing Model, you might have been looking for a way to take benefit from NuGet as a distri...
Installing commands into the NuGet PowerShell profile
If you're one of those guys who prefers to automate things than repeating them manually, you've probably spent some time already in the NuGet Package Manager...
U NO LIKE VS2012 SHOUTING MENUS?!
::: TO DISABLE ALL CAPS MENUS :::
Slides & code of MSDN Live Meeting: CI using TFS11 & NuGet
Thanks everyone for joining this session!
Install-NuSpec & Enable-PackagePush: create, build & push NuGet packages anywhere
This short post is basically combining some of my recent posts (this one and that one) into one. Actually, into one single NuGet package :)
Install-Package NuSpec
If you are like me and regularly produce NuGet packages, then you often deal with NuSpec files. I always found it annoying that I had to leave my Visual Stud...
NuGet $version$ token explained
Many questions related to creating NuGet packages are related to versioning. One question in particular I’d like to discuss here because it’s easier to poin...
Creating ReSharper Live Templates & distribute them using NuGet
In one of my recent projects I created some ReSharper Live Templates in order for other developers to easily create some code using a predefined class templa...
Generated AssemblyVersion for NuGet package on TFS Build
Goal: SemVer & auto-incremented build number on package & project output
How to help yourself when NuGet goes down
Today will be remembered as the day that NuGet.org went down and broke quite some builds. While many people would love to ...
Hidden gem: the NuGet package manifest XSD
If you are automating the creation of NuGet packages (through CI for instance), you most likely touched a .nuspec file somehow. The .nuspec file is an XML fi...
MyGet tops Vanilla NuGet feeds with a Chocolatey flavor
We recently deployed an all new version of MyGet.org, which contains quite a lot of optimizations and some new features as well. If you didn't notice, go che...
Resharper plug-in: Minify XML
The Problem
MEET the Community at TechDays Belgium 2012
For those who weren’t aware yet, next week, “Gu Almighty” is paying our little country a visit during the 10th anniversary edition of TechD...
Slides for UGIALT.NET - NuGet
Whilst I've been sharing this wonderful EasyJet experience with Maarten Balliauw (flight delayed for 4hrs because they had to fly in a new plane with spare p...
2011
Why everyone should be using a symbol server
Today we are excited to announce that MyGet has partnered with SymbolSource to deliver you private NuGet feeds integrated with private symbol repositories! I...
Gently phase out support for older NuGet packages with MyGet
Simply deleting those packages is most likely not the best option. You probably have no idea of who still depends on them, either directly or through another...
Install NuGet command line extensions using the Package Manager Console
It's quite late into the night over here, and the blog post is quite abstract, so please bare with me on this one :-)
Prevent TFS from adding installed NuGet packages to source control
I recently came accross a tweet asking for help, because TFS was always adding the installed NuGet package binaries into source control automatically. Especi...
NuGet.Analyze now available as command line extension
2011-10-20 Edit: the NuGet.Analyze.Installer package is now obsolete, as explained in this post. Use the more generic installation procedure provided by the ...
Generate NuGet package dependency matrix directly from TFS source control
I've played with this idea for a while now, and I've finally forked the NuGet sources to add this functionality to the Commandline tool. This is work in prog...
An overview of the NuGet ecosystem
Many people are starting to realize what an awesome tool NuGet really is. If you don't believe me, just take a look the statistics. Looking at the NuGet ecos...
A word on using and abusing NuGet
One thing I really like about using NuGet is the fact that it creates a window of opportunities: you can use it in different ways, you can abuse it in differ...
Continuous Package Integration: NuGet vs Source Control
Update (August 17, 2011):
3 simple steps to publish a nupkg to MyGet using NuGet Package Explorer 1.6
Today, Luan Nguyen (@dotnetjunky) announced the release of NuGet Package Explorer (NPE) version 1.6.
NuGet Package Explorer extension: open dlls with ILSpy
One of the things I find useful is being able to decompile an assembly and explore its inner workings. I bet you all are familiar with such tools as DotPeek,...
Silverlight Advanced ToolTips v2.2.0 released
This release mainly contains bugfixes for issues reported by users of the library (and a big thanks to all those who even bothered supplying me with a patch!...
MyGet now compatible with NuGet Package Explorer v1.5
Most of you will agree that Package Explorer is a major part within the NuGet ecosystem. In preparation for the latest version 1.5 release, Luan Nguyen (aka ...
Adding NuGet packages from the official feed to your MyGet feed: some improvements
One of the things we want to improve on MyGet is the add-package functionality from the official NuGet feed. We felt this user experience could be better, so...
Get your local NuGet repository online in a private MyGet feed
One of the MyGet features I've been working on lately should make it easier to populate your private feed with the NuGet packages you want.
Announcing MyGet: NuGet-as-a-Service
Ever since the announcement of NuGet I've been intrigued by the potential it could bring to enterprises building software on the .NET platform (one could cal...
NuGet package filename mismatch between gallery and server
Just noticed this one when setting up a corporate NuGet server implementation based on NuGet.Server.dll.
What you should know before speaking at a Belgian tech conference
I just had a wonderful time at TechDays 2011 BeLux this week, with lots of good session by expert speakers. During the conference, it struck me how hard it i...
Upgrading nuget.exe to v1.2
Yesterday, Phil Haack announced version 1.2 of NuGet.
Console Application - Visual Studio gotcha on x64 OS
I was playing around a bit with Enterprise Library 5.0 and it's Logging block. I figured it would be a very simple scenario: Enterprise Library is there to a...
2010
Silverlight 4 Data Binding to Dynamic DataContext
If you ever want to build a Silverlight control that supports TwoWay data binding on a dynamic object, you might hit the same issues as I did, so I hope this...