Visual Studio 2017 only has offline Nuget Packages for .NET Core 2.x. How to get online packages?

Question

I want to get NuGet Packages from Nuget online, but Visual Studio is only giving me 'Microsoft Visual Studio Offline Packages' as an option.

I have tried adding another package source using the following URLS:

and a few others, but I keep getting the following error(s):

[Package source] Unable to load the service index for source http://packagesource. An error occurred while sending the request. The remote name could not be resolved: 'packagesource' [Nuget Online] The V2 feed at 'https://www.nuget.org/Search()?$filter=IsAbsoluteLatestVersion&searchTerm=''&targetFramework=''&includePrerelease=true&$skip=0&$top=26&semVerLevel=2.0.0' returned an unexpected status code '404 Not Found'.

How can I get online packages for .NET Core?

score 49 · Accepted Answer · answered May 23 '18 at 09:26

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I think the answer is:

Right click on the project and choose Manage NuGet packages.

Click on the settings cog in the top right corner of the Nuget packages tab.

In the settings dialog (as shown in the screenshot in the question), click on the + button.
Give the new source a name and a source of https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json.

This appears to work for me

answered May 23 '18 at 09:26

JsAndDotNet

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This should be default behaviour anyway, you must have removed your package source manually somehow. – DavidG May 23 '18 at 09:29
And you should removed that other one you have in the list, it's nonsense. – DavidG May 23 '18 at 09:30
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@DavidG right, it _should be_ the default behavior. Fresh install of VS2017 CE here, only offline package source is available. – ardila Dec 12 '18 at 11:13
Where did you find the `https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json` URL? I couldnt find it anywhere in the documentation on nuget.org OR microsoft. – Mikepote Feb 03 '19 at 11:16
Thank you so much for this. I finally can make progress – CarlD Apr 15 '20 at 14:24
Thanks! This worked, no idea why did they turn it off by default. – Ivan Yurchenko Jun 25 '20 at 18:10
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Fresh install of VS2019: same broken behaviour. Had to also manually add `https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json` – Fabian Streitel Jul 21 '21 at 18:42

score -3 · Answer 2 · answered May 23 '18 at 09:32

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You can try delete the resource "http://packagesource",or reduce the sort.

answered May 23 '18 at 09:32

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"Package source" and [http://packagesource](http://packagesource) are simply the default values that are prepopulated when you click to add a new source (the big green plus sign on the dialog) – ardila Dec 12 '18 at 11:18

Visual Studio 2017 only has offline Nuget Packages for .NET Core 2.x. How to get online packages?

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