Azure DevOps artifacts

All of this can be done on your PC or in a dev VM, but you’ll need to add some files and a VS project to your source control so you need to use the developer box for sure.

Head to your Azure DevOps project and go to the Artifacts section. Here we’ll create a new feed and give it a name:

You get 2GB for artifacts, the 3 nuget packages’ size is around 500MB, you should have no issues with space unless you have other artifacts in your project.

Now press the “Connect to feed” button and select nuget.exe. You’ll find the instructions to continue there but I’ll explain it anyway.

Then you need to download nuget.exe and put it in the Windows PATH. You can also get the nugets and nuget.exe in the same folder and forget about the PATH. Up to you. Finally, install the credential provider: download this Powershell script and run it. If the script keeps asking for your credentials and fails try adding -AddNetfx as a parameter. Thanks to Erik Norell for finding this and sharing in the comments of the original post!

Create a new file called nuget.config in the same folder where you’ve downloaded the nugets. It will have the content you can see in the “Connect to feed” page, something like this:

This file’s content has to be exactly the same as what’s displayed in your “Connect to feed” page.

And finally, we’ll push (upload) the nugets to our artifacts feed. We have to do this for each one of the 3 nugets we’ve downloaded:

You’ll get prompted for the user. Remember it needs to have enough rights on the project.

Of course, you need to change “AASBuild” for your artifact feed name. And we’re done with the artifacts.