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Introduction to NuGet

by John V. Petersen

This is a basic introduction to the NuGet library package management and dependency system that is integrated with Visual Studio. In this course, you will learn how to create and publish NuGet Packages. You will also learn how to host your own NuGet feed and gallery.

What you'll learn

This course is a basic introduction to NuGet. NuGet is a library and file dependency manager that is integrated into Visual Studio. With NuGet, you can wrap any kind of file (EXE's, DLL's, js/html/css files, source code, etc.) in a NuGet Package. In addition to contained files, a NuGet Package contains meta-data that describes what your files do as well as any dependencies that may exist with other NuGet Packages. NuGet Packages are published to either public or private feeds. The official NuGet feed and gallery can be found at nuget.org. In this course, you will learn how to create and publish packages with the various NuGet Tools. In addition, you will learn how to host your own NuGet Feed and gallery.

Table of contents

NuGet Community and Advanced Topics
20mins

About the author

John Petersen has been developing software for over 20 years. It all started when, as a staff accountant, he was asked to get involved in a system upgrade to replace an old IBM Series 1 computer (about the size of a large refrigerator!). Those first programs were written in Clipper, Summer 87. Since that time, John’s tools included dBase, FoxBase, Visual FoxPro and Visual Basic. An early adopter of .NET, he then decided to go to law school. After practicing law for a few years, John realized tha... more

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