How to use Visual Studio Team Services as a NuGet feed in LINQPad

Question

I am using LINQPad 5 and VSTS (visual studio team services) I have a NuGet feed (v3) in VSTS and I would like to use packages from there(private) in LINQPad

I have tried using the personal access token from VSTS as the NuGet password in LINQPad I have tried putting the VSTS credential provider for nuget in AppData\Local\NuGet\CredentialProviders
I have tried putting the VSTS credential provider for nuget in AppData\Local\LINQPad\NuGet\CredentialProviders
I have tried using my VSTS username and password as the nuget credentials

How is this done? Is there a bug in LINQPad? Is this not supported yet?

Fibrous

LINQPad supports only standard NuGet authentication right now, so a personal access token should be the solution. I don't have a VSTS feed to test, so I cannot say why this doesn't work. Can you test your personal access token in another way, say from the NuGet command-line from a machine without the NuGet VSTS Credential Provider installed? – Ashok

I got it to work using the token as the username and a blank password. My mistake was using the token as a password – Fibrous

Actually maybe it's not working as the username, it might be getting cached from the manual nuget.exe run – Fibrous

Answer 1

We managed to get it to work by using the v2 nuget API:

/nuget/v2

instead of:

/nuget/v3/index.json

Just put the personal access token in the password text box on LINQPad Package Sources dialog box.

Stocks

This doesn't appear to work, or at least only partially works. I have a feed with > 300 packages, but the v2 index only returns a single package. If I change feeds and change back, it then throws a TF400813 "Resource not available for anonymous access" – Sentiment

Did not work for me neither. "TF400813: Resource not available for anonymous access. Client authentication required." – Mercantilism

Here is what works: Generate Personal Access Token (googlable) then you can stick in both username and password fields in the LinqPad settings. – Mercantilism

Answer 2

My current way of getting it to work is as follows:

• use nuget v2 feed https://<instance>.pkgs.visualstudio.com/_packaging/<feed>/nuget/v2
• put the personal access token in the password text box
  • make sure the access token is still valid...
• restart linqpad when in doubt! It seems to cache some old credentials (e.g. expired PAT) sometimes
• try disabling other feeds so you only have one feed enabled
• this helps sometimes: under advanced, enable use legacy search engine (v2)

Accident

Restart helped me. Thank you! – Transatlantic

v3 works. Be sure to add your email as username. And no need to b64 encode the PAT – Drastic

Answer 3

i'm using a v3 feed in linqpad v6 following the format https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/XXXXX/_packaging/FEED/nuget/v3/index.json

the only way i got it to work was using the PAT (having Packaging Read access) as the username, empty password. @joe-albahari's instructions on the forums and such to use the PAT it in the password field did not work.

Bel