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Douglas
Douglas

Reputation: 4183

NuGet Package manager stuck on "Retrieving information..." on VS 2013

Using VS 2013 with NuGet Package Manager installed, I can view all Installed packages, but when I pick Updates or Online, I get an endless busy indicator showing "Retrieving information..."

I've verified I have a good connection. I uninstalled/reinstalled NuGet Package Manager.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks

Upvotes: 28

Views: 30471

Answers (11)

Nguyễn Thế Hưng
Nguyễn Thế Hưng

Reputation: 21

  1. Open package manager console in Visual Studio
  2. Type: [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bOR [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12

It works well

Upvotes: 2

Malik Ateeq
Malik Ateeq

Reputation: 1

I faced the same issue, tried different solutions but was unable to resolve the issue. Finally, I tried this method and resolve my problem.

  1. Go to the NuGet website: https://www.nuget.org/
  2. Copy the EntityFramework Package link (Latest Version Suggested)
  3. Go to your project in Visual Studio > Tools > NuGet Package Manager > Package Manager Console
  4. Paste copied link into the console and download

Upvotes: 0

sarfaraz akhtar ansari
sarfaraz akhtar ansari

Reputation: 41

The following steps should help:

  1. Open the nuget website
  2. You can select any package but I would suggest EntityFramework
  3. Open your project then select Tools > library package manager > package manager console
  4. paste this into the console: Install-Package EntityFramework -Version 6.4.4 After taking these steps your nuget will work but only for the current project.

Upvotes: 2

kpaolo
kpaolo

Reputation: 631

I'm using VS 2013 and all of suggested solutions has failed. I solved the problem by applying the following method :

  1. Open package manager console in Visual Studio
  2. Type: [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bOR [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12

This will change the connection security protocol to nuget as specified in this article: Deprecating TLS 1.0 and 1.1 on NuGet.org

Upvotes: 63

Anomim Fanta
Anomim Fanta

Reputation: 11

  1. Open packet manager console in Visual Studio
  2. Type: [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bOR [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12

its solve my issue.

Upvotes: 1

Sergey_T
Sergey_T

Reputation: 588

May be it will help someone. My problem was with Nuget Package Manager. I've just updated its version.

To update Nuget Package Manager you need go to the menu under Tools -> Extensions and Updates -> Updates tab -> Visual Studio Gallery.

Upvotes: 8

Tom McDonough
Tom McDonough

Reputation: 1262

I came across this problem and it would hang for about an hour at times. How I get round it is go to download a package in the Manage Nuget packager and then right click on your project and click clean. The download pops up within 2 -20 seconds.

Upvotes: 1

Asim Zafar
Asim Zafar

Reputation: 89

I encountered the same problem and tried different solutions but none worked! So I am using this workaround.

  1. Go to https://www.nuget.org
  2. Search for the package you want to install, it would show you the command for installing the package.
  3. Open package manager console in VS and run the command (make sure you select the right project). This will install the package for you.

Cheers.

Upvotes: 5

webternals
webternals

Reputation: 171

For me it was a problem with NuGet not Visual Studio. The problem turns out to be that NuGet does not like proxy settings of any kind. Running a local proxy debugging tool such as Fiddler will break NuGet! You’ll need to turn them off or uninstall them also ensure that the environment variable HTTP_PROXY is removed from your system settings. Also you will need to check your system proxy settings as well and make sure you are not using a proxy.

This has been documented else where and is the problem for a lot of folks out there!

Upvotes: 4

Andrew
Andrew

Reputation: 11

I've noticed this problem once I changed versions of Visual Studio. For whatever reason, the Nuget extension breaks during the installation process even though it seems to be installed in Visual Studio. You basically need to reinstall Nuget, and I had to follow the instructions on this link to get things working again:

http://www.paraesthesia.com/archive/2013/07/30/upgrading-nuget-the-process-cannot-access-the-file-because-it.aspx/

Upvotes: 1

t00thy
t00thy

Reputation: 519

there is some error in NuGet package manager in VS 2013. It's noticed and fixed by Microsoft, but we are waiting for new update of NuGet.

But there is some more reasons, why you stuck on "Retrieving information". First check your proxy and firewall settings. In my situation, we need to unblock something(it is in my work, so I don't know,what exactly) and after that I saw the updates.

Upvotes: 1

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