I wanted to see if there was a way during build to update nuget packages automatically. Has anyone been successful in accomplishing this and if so can you share how you went about this?
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I keep getting this error when trying to add a scaffolded item to my presentation layer.
Packages I am using
It looks like scaffolding the items installing the older version of Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer or Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore then your project currently depends on.
There are several ways that might help you fix the said issue. You could try them one by one.
Try to clear Nuget Cache.
Go to Tools in the Visual Studio
Options
NuGet Package Manager
General
Clear All NuGet Cache(s)
If the issue persists, try to manually update the packages Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer or Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore
Try to update the rest of the NuGet packages.
Reference: Package restore failed. Rolling back package changes
I have a Xamarin Android project that I'm building on a TFS build server. The Nuget packages are not restored, and so the build fails with a bunch of "[filename] could not be found" errors.
I believe the problem is that for the Android build, you specify the .csproj file, rather than the .sln. The field is called "Project" on a Xamarin.Android build step. The automatic Nuget package restore only works if you load the solution file. If you directly build the csproj with MSBuild.exe, the Nuget package restore does not happen.
I expect I can create a PowerShell script step that manually calls Nuget, but it seems this should be supported first-class. Any ideas for me?
The recommended way is to add a NuGet Installer build step before the actually build step. More about this package here
I am using teamcity for creating nuget packages that are being feed to a octopus deploy server. I ran into a problem regarding the dll versions that are installed as a nuget dependency, more precisely they are updated to the latest version instead of the specified version, even though in csproj, it checked the option specific version.
I don't know where it is the problem, on the local machine the build does not upgrade the dll, only on teamcity.
Is it msbuild related, or some set up to the nuget installer step, when I restore the nuget package.
Thanks in advance.
I have a Team City Nuget build setup which works fine. However, I have tried to update some nuget packages, one of them being: Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc. This was updated from version 5.2.2 to 5.2.3.
This broke the build. Examining the logs I noticed that the nuget package restore seems like it didn't even try to install Mvc. However, the packages folder that was generated by Team City has a Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.5.2.3 folder but there is no dll file in the lib folder.
I'm at a loss here I don't see why updating to different package version breaks nuget restore.
Any insights on this behavior? Thanks in advance.
Delete the "Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.5.2.3" package folder completely. The NuGet restore action should recreate this folder and download the assembly or assemblies correctly which are supposed to be in the "lib".
I've got the exact same issue on my build server and that solved the issue.
Check all of your projects in the solution and make sure they're targeting the same version of the .NET Framework. I've seen this flip out a build server before.
Also check in your solution packages directory and make sure that all projects that contain references that are packages are listed in the repositories.config file, so that they all get restored properly on the build server.
I've had some trouble getting WiX projects to build on build servers. One of the pain points has been that my WiX projects are referencing libraries in c:\program files... and the build process calls executables in the same path. This is a bummer because I have to install WiX toolkit in order to get my project to build.
What's the best way to eliminate this headache by having all build tools local to the project being built?
Is there a nuget package that does this? (At the time of writing it appears not, but I wanted to verify.) Package Restore capability would be nice because then I don't have to include the (many) WiX files in git.
If not, what do I need to download from WiX? What do I need to modify so that the compiler knows where to find the binaries to build WiX projects?
You can download just the WiX Binaries .zip from http://wixtoolset.org/releases/ then you can modify your wixproj file and update the <WixToolPath></WixToolPath> element to point to your WixBinaries
The WiX documentation has an article that explains how: Integrating Wix Projects into your Daily Builds
There is an unofficial nuget package at WiX.Toolset.
However, note that this seems to only be applicable to the setup project itself (i.e. it cannot be used to fetch wix binaries for e.g. a class library assembly).