NuGet

TeamCity integrates with NuGet package manager and can also serve a NuGet feed. Using TeamCity as a NuGet feed comes handy if you want to publish your NuGet packages to a limited audience - just to your team, for instance. Before TeamCity version 2018.1, NuGet feed was global for the whole server. And it was only possible for the system administrator to enable the feed. Having a global feed could lead to a substantial size, delays with packages appearance, etc. TeamCity 2018.1 addresses those issues by allowing to enable a NuGet feed at the project level, which means each project can hav

Many teams are working with Visual Studio Online (VSO), a hosted Team Foundation Server that provides source control and issue tracking as a cloud service. While VSO comes with a build server as well, lots of developers prefer to use TeamCity for their continuous integration story because of its advanced features to automatically run builds for feature branches,  automatic merge and many others. TeamCity supports building projects that are hosted on Visual Studio Online, the only thing we have to do is add a VCS root to our build configurations. Depending on the version control system used

When working with NuGet we can make use of package restore. The concept is simple: instead of committing packages that we depend on to source control, we only commit the list of dependencies we need and download the assemblies during build. In TeamCity, package restore is supported in various ways. We can use the NuGet.targets file (NuGet v2.6 and earlier) or run nuget restore from the command line (v2.7). TeamCity has a build runner which makes setting up package restore a breeze: the NuGet Installer. NuGet Installer The NuGet Installer build runner will make sure all package dependencie

The recording of our February 12th webinar, Deployment Automation with Octopus Deploy and TeamCity, is now available on JetBrains.tv and YouTube. We would like to thank Paul Stovell for the great session and Paul Stack for helping moderate and answer the large volume of questions. To all of the attendees of the webinar, your attention and participation was simply wonderful. Thank you too. About This Webinar: You’re probably familiar with building and testing code in TeamCity, but how do you deploy the built artifacts? How do you promote your deployments between development, test, staging

Today's TeamCity 7.0 EAP is the last EAP build with new features in it, as starting from it we are going to focus on fixing bugs and polishing already announced functionality. So basically, this build is more or less what TeamCity 7.0 is going to look like. So here's what we have for you today. REST API A feature request to allow build configuration editing via REST, that has been around for a while, has finally been implemented, so now you can get complete settings of a build configuration or template via REST and change them as well. Moreover, you can create and delete build configurations,

TeamCity 7.0 EAP (Early Access Program) was recently opened and one of the new features is the built-in support for NuGet. I recently blogged about setting up TeamCity to pack and publish NuGet packages via a plug-in and this plug-in is now included by default in TeamCity 7. However, the real new interesting feature is that TeamCity is now a native NuGet repository too! Native NuGet Server? Many of those that have been using NuGet, have most likely been using it to consume packages from nuget.org where there are currently over 3800 unique packages, most of which are open source. What

Today we're making available yet another TeamCity 7.0 EAP build with lots of cool stuff in it. As usual, you can get a taste of features that are going to be in version 7.0 even before it is released. So if you're wondering, what is there - here's a list of things you couldn't do before, but can try out now: View investigations assigned to you at one page Previously, there was no specific place where you could see all investigations assigned to you. Of course you had notifications, and you could see this information in each particular build configuration, but it would be much more convenient t

TeamCity uses Service Messages to provide an easy API to allow for build scripts integration, i.e. the build providing status reports, artifacts publishing, test reporting, etc. A Service Message has the following format: Service Messages introduce a communication protocol for data exchanges  between processes using streams, sockets, HTTP or pipes. I've created a wrapper to allow for easier interaction with TeamCity Service Messages, providing it as a package available on NuGet. Usage PM> Install-Package TeamCity.ServiceMessages The library contains two main classes. One for reading

New TeamCity 7.0 EAP build is ready and waiting for you to try! We have improved features introduced in the first EAP build, and of course we've got some completely new stuff. .NET Inspections runner Yes, it's finally here and it's based on powerful ReSharper code analysis engine! Now you can run .NET inspections and see the results right in TeamCity. Global Maven settings Previously you could specify path to alternative user settings file (equivalent to Maven command line option -s or --settings) in build configuration.  Now you can define these settings xml files globally in Server Configu

Look out world, we have just opened early access program for the next TeamCity version: code name Faradi. That means you can download the first TeamCity 7.0 build right away and try all the cool features that are in it. Want to know what features are there? Here's a list: Build Failure Conditions - Smart Control Over Your Build Status TeamCity has become smarter in deciding when a build is to be considered "failed" - now it can look beyond the obvious like exit code or failed tests presence. Basically, you can instruct TeamCity to mark a build as failed if it has become "worse". There is a num

Today I'd like to share with you a plugin for TeamCity 6.5 that provides support for NuGet, the open source developer focused package management system for the .NET platform. What does the plugin bring? NuGet Packages Installer The plugin adds dedicated build runner that allows you to: Install NuGet packages without having to check them in to the version control, which comes in handy especially when using a DVCS, like Mercurial or Git. The problem and a workaround is also covered in David Ebbo post. Automatically update package dependencies to the most recent ones (optionally). Note, tha