When I check in my projects into VSTS -- aka VSO -- should I check in the packages folder contents?
I checked in a couple of projects into VSTS "without" the packages folder contents. I downloaded the those projects onto another computer and now I'm having a lot of trouble restoring packages.
Is it standard practice to check in projects with "packages" folders?
Typically checkin the .config file(s) in the root but nothing else. Then, make sure that vs is setup to restore nuget packages when you build.
On the solution, goto Tools->Options->Package Manager->Allow NuGet to download missing packages. That should work.
And, since I have to edit every answer I type as I get it wrong the first time ... here is a good outline of what you need to do to exclude those files in case you need it.
In most of our solutions, we checkin the /packages/repository.config file at the solution level and then all of the packages.config files in each project.
