In oreder to add pdb files and make nuget package debugable, I just add -Symbol parameter to nuget pack command as shown below.
nuget pack MyProject.csproj -Symbols
Creating Symbol Package-Microsoft Documantation
There is a NuGet Pack Task in TFS and It handles nuget packaging.
As far as I understood, NuGet Packager generates pdb files by default.
I would like to learn how to disable/enable this feature on TFS NuGet Packager.
Actually TFS Nuget Packager task will not generate pdb files by default for now. Unless you create a Symbol package which will include the pdb file.
For the version 2 of the task there is an option called Create symbols package under Pack options
Specifies that the package contains sources and symbols. When used
with a .nuspec file, this creates a regular NuGet package file and
the corresponding symbols package.
With this checked, TFS will generate corresponding symbol packages.
However this feature/Nuget task version is available only on Visual Studio Team Services and not yet available on-premises TFS. Will coming soon in the near future.
For your version of Nuget Packager task you could simply add the -Symbols parameter in NuGet Arguments under Advanced option to enable symbol package. And the generated pdb files will auto add in the symbol package.
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What files must I add while building the installation file in Rad Studio using Advanced installer? When I chose the project file, I launched the file created with Advanced Installer, but it says that:
file_name.bpl missing
What should I do ?
If you don't build with runtime packages (Project->Options->Packages->Runtime packages->Link with runtime packages is False), then you only have to distribute your application executable (.exe).
If you build with runtime packages (Project->Options->Packages->Runtime packages->Link with runtime packages is True), you have to include those packages when you distribute your application executable (.exe). This requires at a minimum that you include the VCL and RTL packages (vclXXX.bpl and rtlXXX.bpl, where XXX depends on the specific version of RAD Studio that you're using).
Depending on what your application does, you may also have to include other runtime packages in your installer. You can find the list of packages that your application needs by looking at the runtime package list in Project->Options->Packages->Runtime Packages->Runtime packages (click the ... button to open the dialog).
For more information, see the RAD Studio documentation topic Deciding Which Runtime Packages to Use.
You should be able to find a list of names of the packages used from the menu at Project/Information for YourApplication This list should be available once the project has successfully compiled and linked.
Even more useful may be the Project/Deployment menu item. This item is designed to actually deploy your application and its files to a remote machine using paserver, and perhaps could be used to do that in the process of making your installation file.
However, the big advantage of Project/Deployment is that it lists not only the name of each file, but also the Directory where that file can be found.
It looks to me like there may be files under Project/Deployment, such as localization language files, that might not always be needed, so I would cross-check Project/Deployment (which shows the Directory) with the Project/Information for YourApplication list. However, Project/Deployment is where I would look to find the directory where the missing file_name.bpl that Advanced Installer needs can be found.
I'm creating a small nuget package for internal using (I created .NET standard project to use both .NET Framework or .NET Core). I created a Build Definition to build the library then push it to the Nuget Feeds of my company.
I have 2 questions:
How can I set it automatically increase the version of the my nuget package when Queue the build in tfs 2017 & Can I set some information like Author, Company...for my package?
After having the Package in the TFS Packages. I tried to add my nuget package to my project. The nuget referenced package were not automatically added to the project. I can see, it displayed "No dependencies" but in fact, I used 2 packages in my library are Newtonsoft & StackExchange.Redis. So when I run the debug, error shown "Could not find the StackExchange.Redis..."
That's strange
In my Libary project setting, I can see
There are two ways to package nuget packages. You can use "nuget pack" or "dotnet pack" (if you have some dotnet core in your solution). The difference is that dotnet pack will create a dependency section in your nuspec and you would see dependency upon installing where nuget pack will not by default unless you use an actual nuspec file. If you do create a nuspec file, you'll need to add the dependency section to you file in order to have them pop up at installation. Check here for info on the nuspec file.
For you version number it's also actually in the nuspec file in the metadata section there is a tag with the version you want. The TFS nuget pack task as a drop down you can use to send in a version number. For this task you can either use a nuspec file or the csproj directly.
You have the same options for dotnet pack using the dotnet core task
Update:
If you change your build number version pattern in the options tab for a 4 (or 3) digit pattern like $(Date:yyyy.MM.dd).$(Rev:r) e.g. 2020.03.05.xx (where xx will increment for each build in the same day and go down to 1 the next day) or 1.0.$(Rev:r) which will be 1.0.xx that will increment forever until you change the 1.0 value and then use the "Use Build Number" it will do it for you.
In my asp.net web application, i have solution with 5 projects and nuget.org. In TFS Build Definition,
1) While building the whole solution in Visual Studio Build Task
Nuget packages getting restored.
2) While trying to generate executable files for individual projects in MS Build Task
If I select Restore Nuget packages, It's not finding nuget packages and step getting failed with message - "Process 'NuGet.exe' exited with code '1'."
I have tried many references online and none worked. Any suggestions on how to solve this?
Do i need to make any changes in the nuget.config file to support restoring
packages to individual projects.
Do not directly select Restore Nuget pacakges in MS build task configuration. This option is deprecated. To restore NuGet packages, add a NuGet Installer step before the build.
(Important) This option is deprecated. Make sure to clear this
checkbox and instead use the NuGet Installer build step.
Source Link: MSBuild
Besides, you could also build single project not the entire solution in Visual Studio Build task. Just select the project (.*proj) files instead of .sln file.
Unless you are building a customized MSBuild project file, then we recommend you use the MSBuild step instead of the Visual Studio Build step.
You could also try to build single project using Visual Studio Build task, see if the issue is still exists.
Same problem, downgraded to 4.4.1. it helped
I am using a TFS Git project in Team Services and while my project compiles locally, I get a build failure when I check in my code to VS online and manually queue the build.
The errors at the moment are only pertaining to enterprise library data access dlls. I am using V6 of the library and this is error I get
The type or namespace name 'Practices' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft' (are you missing an assembly reference?)
In my build definition I have checked the box against both Restore Nuget Packages and when that alone did not work, I checked the box against [Clean] as well. I still get that error. My packages.config files are checked in for each of the projects in the solution. I also have the Packages folder checked in but this folder has no dlls. It only has the various .nupkg files and respective .xml files checked in. Is this causing the problem?
Yes, you have to either checkin the DLLs or delete the nupkg files. The build server thinks you already have the packages so its not trying to restore them but the DLLs aren't there to reference.
when I create a build for the Team Foundation Service, I get all kind of reference dll's not found exceptions.
These references are added by nugget packages.
I've added the 'package restore' option on the solution which added 3 files in a .NuGet folder.
EDIT
When i got the solution from TFS on another pc, i got the same errors (missing dll's), so it's not only the TFS build service having problems.
The missing dll's are are missing files from installed nuget packages (some are part of the default VS template, Unity was a package i added later), which (the packages) are added on the first pc, but then are missing on the next pc (that's why i added the 'or' in the title of this question)
How can i get the Nuget added files on pc2 too?
I guess you've found a solution by now. I write this just to provide an answer for this question.
To have NuGet packages automatically downloaded on another PC, you need to enable NuGet package restore on build. You do this in two steps:
Right click the solution and select Enable NuGet Package Restore.
This will add a .nuget solution folder with NuGet.Config, NuGet.exe and NuGet.targets underneath it. These files should actually be checked in to source control, but the binary file is tiny. It will also modify the MSBuild scripts in all projects of the solution to import the NuGet.targets file to hook NuGet into the build process.
In Tools -> Library Package Manager -> Package Manager Settings make sure the option 'Allow NuGet to download missing packages during build' is checked.
This step must be done on all machines.
Now the BuildDependsOn property of all project build scripts should make the RestorePackages target in NuGet.targets kick in and download missing packages before you get build errors for missing references.