How to configure npm, git and bower for Visual Studio behind a proxy

Question

How to configure properly Visual studio tools to work behind a proxy ?

Answer 1

To configure proxy settings for npm package manager

1. Close Visual Studio.
2. Open a Visual Studio developer command window (Go to Start menu -> In folder Visual Studio XXXX -> Developer Command Prompt)
3. In the Visual Studio developer command window, type the following command: npm config set proxy http://proxyuser:[email protected]:8080.
4. Then type this command: npm config set https-proxy http://proxyuser:[email protected]:8080.
5. Open Visual Studio.

To configure proxy settings for git

1. Close Visual Studio.
2. Open a Visual Studio developer command window (Go to Start menu -> In folder Visual Studio XXXX -> Developer Command Prompt)
3. In the Visual Studio developer command window, type the following command: git config --global http.proxy http://proxyuser:[email protected]:8080.
4. Type this command:git config --global https.proxy http://proxyuser:[email protected]:8080.
5. Open Visual Studio.

To configure proxy settings for bower

1. Close Visual Studio.
2. Navigate to the user directory (Type %UserProfile% in the explorer's path)
3. Create the file .bowerrc (Type ".bowerrc." as file name)

4. Write

   { 
     "registry": "http://bower.herokuapp.com", 
     "proxy": "http://proxyuser:[email protected]:8080", 
     "https-proxy": "http://proxyuser:[email protected]:8080"
   }
   

5. Save the file
6. Open Visual Studio.

WARNING: If you have specials characters in your proxy password, you must encode the proxy url. Example:

• username: DOMAIN\user name
• password: P@$$w0rd
• proxy server: 10.80.0.0
• proxy port: 8080
• PROXY URL with authentification: http://DOMAIN%5Cuser+name%3AP%40%24%[email protected]:8080

Et Voilà :)