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NuGet Symbols and Symbol Packages, Explained
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Eric Seng on May 8th, 2026.
A quick explainer article to understand Symbols and Symbol packages for NuGet package debugging.
Eric Seng on May 8th, 2026.
A quick explainer article to understand Symbols and Symbol packages for NuGet package debugging.
Eric Seng on April 30th, 2026.
Learn what Source Servers are, what SourceLink is, how they relate to Symbols, and how all three come together to help with NuGet package debugging.
Eric Seng on April 14th, 2026.
NuGet.org is a great source for packages to jump-start a project, but it's important to filter packages from the open-source community before downloading.
Eric Seng on March 12th, 2026.
There are many metadata fields in a NuGet Package. For first-party packages, you can avoid 8 and not have any problems in your development.
Eric Seng on February 12th, 2026.
There are three ways to express a license in a NuGet package: expressions, url, and file. This article is a quick explainer on what NuGet license types are.
Crista Perlton on August 5th, 2025.
This article is an overview of our guide NuGet at Scale, which is available as a free, downloadable eBook, and can also be read online. NuGet development starts out easy: a few projects, a small team, pulling packages from NuGet.org… … But in scaling organizations, things get messy: The problem isn’t NuGet itself,...
Crista Perlton on August 30th, 2024.
NuGet is the go-to package manager for .NET and is built right into tools like Visual Studio, making adding, updating, and managing libraries super easy. By default, Visual Studio pulls packages from NuGet.org—but giving your team unrestricted access to all those packages can be risky. Over 80% of projects rely on outdated dependencies,...
Eric Seng on May 9th, 2023.
When NuGet packages are stored on third-party platforms, proprietary stuff isn't private. Setting up a private NuGet server is free and easy.
Eric Seng on May 1st, 2023.
What's the difference between GitHub Advisories, CVE, and NVD in terms of NuGet Vulnerability Scanning? How does it affect your packages?
Eric Seng on February 9th, 2022.
Open-source packages like those found on NuGet.org have built the foundation for almost every modern application. What makes them so powerful and complex?