nuGet-Package incomplete? e.g. class Westwind.Globalization.JavaScriptResourceHandler is missing - globalization

I installed the Westwind-Globalization package 2.1 but the libraries installed are misssing the Westwind.Globalization.JavaScriptResourceHandler-class. I downloaded 2.1 from git-hub and compiled the Westwind.Globalization.Web-project anew. Now the class exists and my code works again.
Did I do something wrong or is this class deprecated/discontinued?!

You need to install the Westwind.Globalization.Web package, which includes the JavaScript resource handler. The release version of the libary rearranged the breakout of resources into separate packages. I suspect you had an older, or beta version that came from before when the change was made (a beta most likely).

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HttpRequestMessageExtensions not being found at run-time in Azure Function

I've got an Azure Function app that creates a precompiled DLL (so it uses normal .cs files, not the older .csx method, pre-VS2017). Previously, it was targeting .Net Framework 4.5.2. I updated it to 4.7 so as to use some of the new C# 7 features. I updated my NuGet packages by doing "Update-Package -Reinstall" and verified that they all have the "net47" target set in my packages.config file.
Everything compiles fine. But when I call a function that uses either of 2 HttpRequestMessageExtensions methods, I get an exception. One example of the exception is this:
Method not found: 'System.Net.Http.HttpResponseMessage
System.Net.Http.HttpRequestMessageExtensions.CreateResponse(
System.Net.Http.HttpRequestMessage, System.Net.HttpStatusCode)'.
Here's an example of a tiny test function that will cause the error:
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Http;
public static HttpResponseMessage Run(HttpRequestMessage req)
{
return req.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.Accepted, "");
}
Upon calling this function with say Postman, I'll receive the aforementioned exception. I also get a similar method not found exception when I call GetQueryNameValuePairs() on the HttpRequestMessage.
I've tried updating my NuGet packages to the latest, no difference. I've cleaned and rebuilt and restarted a bunch of times, making sure to nuke my bin and obj directories.
I'm not sure what could be the problem. I guess I could downgrade back to .Net 4.5.2 but I'd rather not. For one, I want to use C# 7, and for two, I want to understand what the problem is rather than avoid it.
Update: interesting. The issue seems to be with System.Net.Http. If I lower it to 4.0.0 everything works fine. If I raise it to any higher version I get the issues listed above. I tried selectively lowering each of my packages, one by one, to their previous version number to find this out. I then updated all but this one to the latest version and it fixed the issue.
I also tested it on my side. The issue is related to the latest version of System.Net.Http assembly(4.3.2). If I don't install this package manually or install the earlier versions(4.3.1/4.3.0), the application could work fine.
The CreateResponse method is a extension method which is written in System.Web.Http assembly(version 5.2.3). It seem that it is not compatible with the latest version of System.Net.Http. Please could just skip the error by using the earlier version of System.Net.Http and you can also submit this issue to Microsoft using follow channel.
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Feedback
Interesting. For me, if I got above version 4.0.0 (including 4.1.1 or 4.3.1) I still get the same problem of not finding those extension methods.
The assembly might not be updated during you change the package version. From the bin\Debug\net47 folder, we could check the current assembly version we used.
If the modified date of assembly is 2/9/2017, the package version is 4.3.1. If the modified date of assembly is 4/19/2017, the package version is 4.3.2. If the assembly is not the latest version, it could work fine on my side.
In addition, Microsoft.Asp.Net.WebApi.Client package is installed by default when creating an Azure function. System.Net.Http is one of its dependencies. So we don't need to install the System.Net.Http package manually. When running our application, NuGet will choose a right version of System.Net.Http for our application.
I had the same issue running my Azure Function locally and eventually tracked it down to conflicting System.Net.Http assemblies. I created my Azure function from a blank ASP.NET Web App and initially pulled down the System.Net.Http NuGet package to use within the project. I also pulled down the Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client for use within the project. It did not matter which version of System.Net.Http I tried my project would compile but fail when the request was made.
Eventually, I removed packages I had downloaded, cleaned the build folder and added just the Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client. I noticed that this automatically referenced the System.Net.Http on my machine for my version of the .NET Framework. (C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework.NETFramework). This compiled successfully and I was able to make requests to the function without any exceptions.
Using #Aaron-Newton's insight, I identified that my issue was due to my Azure Functions project referencing a .Net Standard 2.0 class library. I switched it to .Net Framework 4.6 and it started working again. Seems like this is a bug in the Functions tooling.
I've filed a bug with the Functions team here: https://github.com/Azure/Azure-Functions/issues/477
I had the same issue. I spent quite a while to fix this problem.
The cause is that the Azure Functions project is refering to .Net Standard Library with version higher than 1.4.
Bringing down your .Net Standard version to 1.4 or lower would fix the problem.
But this is defintely a bug with Azure Functions SDK. They should fix it.
https://github.com/Azure/azure-webjobs-sdk-script/issues/980
https://github.com/Azure/Azure-Functions/issues/477

Migrate Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Mobile.SQLStore to Microsoft.Azure.Mobile.Client.SQLiteStore

I am trying to update one of my Xamarin.Forms apps that uses the deprecated Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Mobile.SQLStore pacakge with the new Microsoft.Azure.Mobile.Client.SQLiteStore package but I get the following error when I try to install the package in my Core pcl project:
Could not install package 'Microsoft.Azure.Mobile.Client.SQLiteStore 4.0.0'.
You are trying to install this package into a project that targets '.NETPortable,Version=v4.5,Profile=Profile78', but the package does not contain any assembly references or content files that are compatible with that framework.
For more information, contact the package author.
I tried to follow this documentation but they seem to forget to add the code sample, so I can't figure out exacly what they are doing. The deprecated Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Mobile.SQLStore package installed in a PCL library but the new Microsoft.Azure.Mobile.Client.SQLiteStore package doesn't or so it seems.
Any help would be appreciated.
It turns out that Microsoft.Azure.Mobile.Client.SQLiteStore 4.0.0 does not support PCL anymore but they moved to .NET Standard 1.4. PCL support stops at version 3.1.0
So if you are using PCL install v3.1.0. But before you install v3.1.0, make sure you manually remove the deprecated Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Mobile.SQLStore first.
Check out this issue for more details: https://github.com/Azure/azure-mobile-apps-net-client/issues/337
you can try and open the .csproj of your PCL and replace the Profile78 entry with a profile the NuGet package supports (probably Profile259 which includes almost everything but windows phone silverlight)
If your project won't compile after changing your profile (because there are missing type references e.g.) try picking a different profile the package supports.
If you're having multiple PCLs you might need to change the target profile of all of them.
Try Changing .Net profile to Profile 7 and then update.
Go To Cross Platforms Project Options->Build->General->.Net Portable

Swift: Toolchain download seemingly components missing

On the swift website you have several options / versions to choose from, but some of the packages don't seem to include swift-build, what is the reason for this?
Notably:
Swift-2.2.1 14.04 May 3
Should be similar for the version of 15.10. It does not seem to be the case with the master-branch tar-balls.
Its actually quite relevant for me to try to stay up to date as possible, since Swift reaks of memory leaks at this point in time.
The release of Swift 2.2 does not include the swift package manager, as the package manager was still too early in development to include in a release version of Swift at that point. Instead, a feature was added to the package manager to allow using the version from a 3.0 toolchain with the Swift from a 2.2 toolchain, so that people could use a more recent version of the package manager.

Are not templates and codesnippets supposed to get installed with the Catel packages when using the NuGet Package Manager?

I have added Catel.Core 3.7, Catel.MVVM 3.7 and Catel.Extensions.Controls 3.7 to my Project but does not have the codesnippets. I have looked in C:\Users\NNUser\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Code Snippets\Visual C#\My Code Snippets and no Catel folder there. I can neither find any templates.
I got the impression these should be automatically installed, or do I need to install them manually as indicated in the end of this thread. Seems to be available here but are those version independent?
NuGet isn't the right mechanism to deploy code snippets & templates. It only contains the actual binaries when deployed via NuGet.
They should be installed manually as documented here
The code snippets and templates are mostly version independent, but will always work with the latest version.
btw. why are you using v3.7? The latest version is 3.9 and 4.0 is about to be released

Microsoft.Threading.Tasks.Extensions in Xamarin Mono projects

I have built a NuGet package for my Simple.OData.Client with support for Xamarin Android and iOS. This library uses Microsoft.Bcl.Async. Tests using Android and iOS simulator went OK, but when I install this new NuGet package into another project, it fails to compile Droid/Touch projects with the following message:
C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Xamarin\Android\Xamarin.Android.Common.targets(720,2): error : Exception while loading assemblies: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load assembly 'Microsoft.Threading.Tasks.Extensions, Version=1.0.12.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'. Perhaps it doesn't exist in the Mono for Android profile?
C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Xamarin\Android\Xamarin.Android.Common.targets(720,2): error : File name: 'Microsoft.Threading.Tasks.Extensions.dll'
Of course there is no Microsoft.Bcl.Async pack (yet) for Mono platforms, on the other hand since the library tests pass on these platforms, I guess this more of a challenge to make Visual Studio happy rather than do some code modification.
Has anyone managed to use on Mono PCLs dependent on Microsoft.Bcl.Async?
Generally, if the code in your package depends on another NuGet package, you need to declare a package dependency so that anyone installing your package will get the one you depend on too. That should take care of issues like this.
However, in this case it is a lot more complicated. Since Microsoft.Bcl.Async doesn't support Mono platforms, you can't declare that package dependency (or if you did it would always fail to install). Unfortunately the license for Microsoft.Bcl.Async restricts it to "Windows platforms". I'm not a lawyer but I think that means you shouldn't distribute Microsoft.Threading.Tasks.Extensions.dll as part of your package. Finally, there's no official PCL support for Mono platforms yet, so if you do come up with a solution that works now it may change when official PCL support comes out.
If you want to attempt getting this to work, what you basically need to do is create your own DLLs with the same names as are in Microsoft.Bcl and Microsoft.Bcl.Async for use on Mono platforms. In those assemblies, put type forwards for the types that Mono already implements (which should probably be the types in the System.* DLLs), and create an implementation of your own for the other ones (the AsyncBridge source code is useful for this). This is what I did for one of my BUILD 2012 PCL demos. The code for that is here. AsyncFacades and AsyncBridge are the relevant projects.
For those stumbling into this issue when getting the Simple.oData.Client from nuget, just install the following packages from nuget:
Microsoft Bcl Async Portable
Microsoft Bcl Async
I believe I've found the problem.
Earlier I had the following line in Simple.OData.Client nuspec file:
<file src="Simple.OData.Client.Core\bin\Release\Microsoft.Threading.Tasks.Extensions.dll" target="lib\portable-net403+win8+sl5+wp8+MonoAndroid16+MonoTouch40\Microsoft.Threading.Tasks.Extensions.dll" />
This is not how it should be because Microsoft.Bcl.Async should have taken care of copying Tasks.Extensions.dll. I reported this to Microsoft and expected this to be fixed in the RTM version of Microsoft.Bcl.Async. Apparently it was not, so all NuGet packages dependent on Microsoft.Bcl.Async should still copy this file. Then it will work.
for who has the same issue I think you can downgrade
System.Threading.Tasks.Extensions 4.4.0

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