ReoGrid for .NET — Official NuGet Feed Now Available: Install and Update Directly from Visual Studio

UNVELL Inc. has launched an official NuGet feed for ReoGrid for .NET, its Excel-like spreadsheet component for WinForms and WPF applications.

Customers with a valid license can create an authentication token in the customer portal and install or update ReoGrid directly from Visual Studio. Until now, the latest assemblies were downloaded as DLLs from the portal; with the new NuGet feed, everything from installation to version upgrades can be done right inside Visual Studio.

■ Authenticated with a token

From the "NuGet Tokens" page in the customer portal (portal.unvell.com), customers can create a token per use case — labeled "dev laptop", "CI server", and so on — and revoke any token at any time. A token is as sensitive as a password and should be kept in a nuget.config or in your CI's secret store.

■ How it works

1. Create an authentication token in the customer portal. 2. Add the feed (https://packages.unvell.com/nuget/v3/index.json) via the dotnet CLI or nuget.config, using your portal email as the username and the token as the password. 3. Install unvell.ReoGrid4 (WinForms) or unvell.ReoGrid4.Wpf (WPF), depending on your framework.

■ About the license key

The official NuGet feed serves v4.5.0 and later. Starting with v4.5, a license key is required: call ReoGridLicense.SetLicense before using ReoGrid. Both license keys and authentication tokens are available from the customer portal.

See the blog post "ReoGrid for .NET — Official NuGet Feed Now Available" for details.