It looks like there’s a pretty glaring hole in the Visual Studio 2013 preview that was released at Build relating to Nuget Package Restore. So you pull down a solution where Enable Package Restore was set into VS 2013 from source control and try to compile. None of the Nuget packages get restored, so the project doesn’t compile. No joke, you have to reinstall all packages to get it to work. That’s “Update-Package -Reinstall” from the Package Manager Console. I hope this gets fixed soon, and definitely before it goes to RTM.

I’ve been trying to upgrade a Windows 8 Metro App project from the Developer Preview edition of Visual Studio to the Beta of 2011 for much of this morning. Not an easy upgrade path, and I haven’t been able to find much online to help so far. Here are a few notes I’ve found that may be helpful to others.

• The path on the MSBuild WindowsXaml assemblies has changed from v1.0 to v11.0. You can’t even get the project file to open until you edit this. It will kick up an error in the output window, the assembly I needed was Microsoft.Windows.UI.Xaml.CSharp.Targets.dll.
• The IGroupInfo type that used to live in the Windows.UI.Xaml.Data assembly is completely gone.
• So far as I can tell, you’re out of luck if you want to add a service reference. Any time I try to add a reference to the same WCF service that I had been using, it errors out with an extraordinarily descriptive, “Unable to add a data service. Please update project system.” I can only take that to mean a non-Metro application.

I’ll post more of these as I find them. Fun at the bleeding edge…