If you are connecting to a private nuget feed you may run into an issue when you first set up the connection, or after updating your password, that you can’t connect to the feed. The error console will report that it was unable to load the service index and the status result was 401. The fix that I’ve found to work has been using the update option through the dotnet nuget command. In my experience, it is often caused because credentials haven’t been set or have changed and the feed is using the old ones.

Update nuget feed

Updating a nuget source is fairly straightforward. The only way I have been able to do so is via the command line, if there is a way through Visual Studio I’d be interested to hear about it. Before using the command line you’ll need to download the .NET SDK if you haven’t done so already. If you are already compiling code on the machine then it is installed and you are ready to go.

To update an existing nuget feed, let’s call the feed InternalCompanyFeed, you need to run the update option. In the below example, we will update the InternalCompanyFeed by setting the username to bnolan and the password to $3cuR3PaS$w0rd.

dotnet nuget update source InternalCompanyFeed --username bnolan --password $3cuR3PaS$w0rd

Depending on the authentication type you may need to set the type(s) to use the --valid-authentication-types option. The standard options are basic, negotiate, kerberos, ntlm, and digest. I haven’t needed that yet but would be interested to hear what setup has required someone to set the option.