# Using NuGet

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## Use CodeArtifact with Visual Studio

* **Note**\
  The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio is not available for Visual Studio for Mac.
* **Important**\
  To use the credential provider, ensure that any existing AWS CodeArtifact credentials are cleared from your `nuget.config` file that may have been added manually or by running `aws codeartifact login` to configure NuGet previously.

## Use CodeArtifact with nuget or dotnet

* **Important**\
  To use the credential provider, ensure that any existing AWS CodeArtifact credentials are cleared from your `nuget.config` file that may have been added manually or by running `aws codeartifact login` to configure NuGet previously.
* **Important**\
  **Linux and MacOS users:** Because encryption is not supported on non-Windows platforms, your fetched credentials will be stored as plain text in your configuration file.
* **Note**\
  To update an existing source, use the `dotnet nuget update source` command.
* **Note**\
  When a package is requested, the NuGet client caches which versions of that package exists. Because of this behavior, an install may fail for a package that was requested before it was available. To avoid this failure and successfully install a package that exists, you can either clear the NuGet cache ahead of an install with `nuget locals all --clear` or use the `--no-cache` option when running `nuget install` or `nuget restore`.
* **Note**\
  You can create a NuGet package if you do not have one to publish. For more information, see [Package creation workflow](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/create-packages/overview-and-workflow) in the *Microsoft documentation*.


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