Starting on December 21, 2011, beta versions of Catel are published to NuGet. This way, it is possible to give users that like to live on the edge a change to update their packages via NuGet.

Installing via package manager

Please make sure to select the same settings as in the screenshow below:

Installing via package manager console

This example installs Catel.Extensions.Controls as a package. However, to install other packages simple change the ID (name) of the package.

Installing the latest beta

Install-Package Catel.Extensions.Controls -IncludePrerelease

Installing a specific beta

Install-Package Catel.Extensions.Controls -IncludePrerelease -version 2.4.1112211041-beta

Updating to the latest beta

Update-Package Catel.Extensions.Controls -IncludePrerelease

Updating to a specific beta

Update-Package Catel.Extensions.Controls -IncludePrerelease -version 2.4.1112211041-beta

Updating to the latest stable version

Update-Package Catel.Extensions.Controls

Strange versioning

The versioning of the beta versions is a bit strange. This is due to a bug in NuGet which does not support the full SemVer standard to include build numbers. Therefore, the beta versions are always 1 less than the next official version.

For example, say that version 2.4 is currently the official version, and the team is working towards version 2.5. Then all beta versions for 2.5 will have this version number:

 2.4.[yyMMddHHmm]-beta (thus on December 21st 2011, 10:41, the version would be 2.4.1112211041-beta).