NuGet with TFS but without Package Restore

Question

I'm trying to establish a private NuGet server for our team but I think I've found a show stopper.

If I have to download the solution from TFS the packages and its subdirectories are created but no actual files were downloaded. The result is that the dlls/assemblies are missing.

Is there a way to accomplish this without enabling package restore? I like to keep the corresponding dlls in the vcs.

Answer 1

TFS by default ignores dll's when adding a folder to the pending changes (and doesn't work to well with binaries in general). Don't forget to add the dll's explicitly to your source control.

This is exactly why I prefer restoring the packages directly from a nuget feed when working with TFS :)

Answer 2

Still no solution found. I think we really have to switch to the package restore feature.