NuGet window

Last modified: 07 April 2022

View | Tool Windows | NuGet

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This window lets you manage NuGet packages in your solution.

Packages tab

In this tab, you can manage installed packages and explore available packages. In the search field, you can enter a package name to look for or use prefixes: T: to look for types and N: to look for namespaces.

Packages that are referenced from other installed packages are displayed in the Implicitly Installed category. Their versions are shown in brackets because you cannot upgrade or downgrade them. To learn which package references an implicitly installed one, right-click it and choose Quick NuGet Documentation or press Ctrl+Q.

JetBrains Rider Nuget window

tip

Every installed and available package has a lot of helpful commands in its context menu, which is available with the right-click or Alt+Enter

Toolbar Controls

Control

Name

Description

Nuget restore

Restore

Calls the standard NuGet restore mechanism (which can be slow, especially on .NET Core projects). Alternatively, you can use the 'Force' restore mechanism, which performs a number of heuristics to determine which packages should be restored. The 'Force' algorithm works almost instantaneously, however there could be cases where it fails to restore some packages.


We recommend using force restore for large projects. It is available in the main menu (Tools | NuGet | NuGet Force Restore) or in the NuGet quick list Alt+Shift+N.

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Refresh

Updates window content to reflect any changes made in the code or externally.

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Toggle Details Position

Use this button to change the position (right or bottom) of the details pane, which lets you view details as well as install/remove/upgrade/downgrade the selected package.

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Upgrade all packages in Solution

Use this button to upgrade packages installed in all projects within the current solution. Depending on the Prerelease checkbox, JetBrains Rider will either upgrade packages to their latest release versions or to the latest pre-release versions.

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NuGet Sort Mode

You can choose whether to sort the packages alphabetically or to use the smart sorting mode, which applies some heuristics to raise most important packages (for example, packages with updates) closer to the top. Sorting mode only applies to the list of installed packages and to the list of projects in the right-hand part. The list of available packages is always sorted by popularity.

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NuGet Settings

Opens the Build, Execution, Deployment | NuGet page of JetBrains Rider settings , where you can configure all settings related to NuGet package management.

Sources tab

In the Sources tab of the NuGet window, Rider lists all NuGet configuration files discovered on your machine. You can add, remove, or edit package sources for the selected config file on the right panel, or click these files to open them in the editor.

If necessary, you can add or remove package sources manually, by editing the packageSources section of a configuration file. For example:

<packageSources>
  <add key="My online package source" value="https://some.address/"/>
  <add key="My local package source" value="C:\NuGetPackages\"/>
</packageSources>

note

NuGet feeds on blob.core.windows.net are hosted with Sleet, which does not support query parameters and sends the entire index when queried.

If you have such feed among your custom NuGet feeds, there might be memory issues because Rider will get too much data when trying to display packages available in that feed.

Indexing of such feeds is disabled by default, but you can temporarily enable it with the Search in dotnetfeed*.blob feeds checkbox on the Build, Execution, Deployment | NuGet page of JetBrains Rider settings Ctrl+Alt+S

Use the Reload Reload button to re-scan related NuGet configuration files.

Folders tab

NuGet caches all downloaded packages to make them available when there is no internet connection and to prevent multiple downloads of the same package.

With Rider, you can view locations of NuGet caches and clear selected locations in the Folders tab of the NuGet window. Clearing NuGet caches is safe, it does not affect packages installed in your projects.

Toolbar Controls

Control

Name

Description

Nuget restore

Restore

Calls the standard NuGet restore mechanism (which can be slow, especially on .NET Core projects). Alternatively, you can use the 'Force' restore mechanism, which performs a number of heuristics to determine which packages should be restored. The 'Force' algorithm works almost instantaneously, however there could be cases where it fails to restore some packages.


We recommend using force restore for large projects. It is available in the main menu (Tools | NuGet | NuGet Force Restore) or in the NuGet quick list Alt+Shift+N.

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Recalculate Folder Sizes

Use this button to re-scan all cache folders and update their displayed sizes.

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Open Folder

Use this button to open selected cache folder in the Explorer/Finder.

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Clear Selected Caches

Use this button to clear the contents of the selected cache folder.

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NuGet Settings

Opens the Build, Execution, Deployment | NuGet page of JetBrains Rider settings , where you can configure all settings related to NuGet package management.

Log tab

This tab displays logs of everything related to NuGet package management in Rider.

Toolbar Controls

Control

Name

Description

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Show Content

Allows you to show or hide details of the log messages.

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Show/Hide Level

Use this button to display or hide verbosity level (INFO, VERBOSE, etc.) in log messages.

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Use Soft Wraps

Use this button to enable line wrapping for lines exceeding the current width of the output area.

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Scroll to the end

Use this button to enable automatic scrolling of the output to the last line so that the most resent messages.

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Clear All

Use this button to clear the log output.

Verbosity Level

Use this selector to only display log entries whose verbosity level equals or lower than selected.

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Show Time

Allows you to show or hide execution time for each item.

Title bar context menu and buttons

You can right-click the window title bar and use the context menu to configure its viewing mode, associate the window with a different tool window bar, or resize and hide the window.

You can also use the toolbar buttons:

Item

Shortcut

Description

Hide tool window

Shift+Escape

Hide the tool window .

To hide all the tool windows, press Ctrl+Shift+F12.