A quarter of a billion NuGet downloads
The total downloads of my packages on NuGet.org have crossed a quarter of a billion. It is a vanity number, but it got me thinking less about the count and more about the platform that made it possible. So here is a short look back at NuGet, the positive bits, and what it has enabled for open source and the community.
Mend Renovate Now Supports C# File-Based Apps and Cake.Sdk
Mend Renovate automates dependency updates by opening pull requests when newer versions of your dependencies are available. Until recently, if you used .NET single-file scripts or Cake.Sdk build scripts written in C# (e.g. cake.cs or build.cs), Renovate did not look inside those files. Two merged changes fix that: the NuGet manager now understands #:sdk and #:package directives in C# files, and the Cake manager can extract and update packages from InstallTool and InstallTools calls. In this post I'll summarize what was added and how to enable it in your repo.
Introducing Cake ClickOnce Recipe
A little over a decade ago I did a lot of business applications with .NET Framework WPF and ClickOnce was in many cases used as a convenient way to deploy and update Windows applications. ClickOnce hasn't gotten much love over the years, and when .NET Core 3 introduced support for WPF applications ClickOnce support was nowhere to be found. But guess what, that's changed with .NET 5 and in this post, I'll go through my recipe for simplifying the building and publishing .NET 5 Windows application using GitHub Actions, Cake, and ClickOnce to Azure Blob Storage.
Introducing Cake Bridge Dependency Injection
A couple of years ago I blogged Dispelling the magic!, a post explaining the internals of the Cake build orchestration tool, with that post as a proof of concept I created Cake.Bridge assembly which provided an easy way from any .NET language get access to Cake abstractions and addins from a single instance static class.
Cake.Kudu.Client version 0.6.0 released
This version fixes a breaking change in the Azure App Services Run-From-Zip web app deployment feature.
Deploying .NET Core to Azure using Bitrise and Cake
Originally published at blog.bitrise.com.
