Do I need to add all packages from nuget into TFS source control if I want a CI setup?

Question

I'm using team foundation service with Git, and I notice when I first checked in my code, all the dlls in the packages folder were not included.

1) If I want to set up CI on the cloud, would I then have to include all these nuget packages into source control?

2) If I have multiple projects, do I have to upload the same dlls for each project into source control also?

3) What is a common strategy to multiple projects, all of them with very similar, if not similar dll references when checking them into source control + CI?

Answer 1

Have a look at NuGet Package Restore . In a nutshell, it will automatically download missing packages from nuget.org, so you don't have do commit them.

The latest version (2.7) introduced some breaking changes so check the version you are using...