So I was working on DayTickler, and we suddenly decided to start using Xamarin controls from Telerik(Progress) and Syncfusion. Traditionally, that usually meant downloading the installer and then referencing the proper assemblies from the local drive. Another workflow was to copy the assemblies to the project directory in some sort of “lib” folder so that those assemblies could be used in a CI environment.
Fast forward to 2016 and we have something called Nuget, so i tried using these to achieve the same objective. The first was to add the two nuget feeds to Visual Studio’s Nuget configuration screen. Easy enough and from there, i was able to provide my Telerik credentials (their feed is private) and install the packages. Yay !
But when you commit to Visual Studio Online, there is no way to build because it would now fail on package restore.
The solution is to:
1 – Create a nuget.config file in the solution so that the build server knows where to download nuget feeds from:
2 – Open your build definition, and in the “Feeds and authentication” section, go point to your nuget.config file:
3 – Press “+” near “Credentials for feeds outside the account/collection”, and add the appropriate details.
That’s it ! worked like a charm and there is a “Verify connection” button to ensure all is good.