How to authenticate to GitLab package repository in Visual Studio

We have a self-hosted GitLab instance. I’ve created a project with a package registry and I’m successfully deploying packages to the registrying using CI/CD and deploy tokens.

However, I want to be able to add the package registry as a NuGet package source in Visual Studio 2022. Using the VS GUI I’ve added the source, and when I save it I’m prompted for my credentials. When I enter the same username and password as I use to login to out GitLab instance I get a 401: Unauthorised response. I’ve tried every variation of my username and our domain name that I can think of, but nothing works.

How do I authenticate to the package registry in Visual Studio using my username and password?

You need to use Token (any kind) instead of password. More details can be found in docs

Thank you. I’d tried a token but I couldn’t work out what username to use. Using my own username worked as expected. I’d also read that documentation but, as I often find with GitLab documentation, it seems to be spread across multiple articles and it’s to get lost in it all!