GET NEW STUFF WITH NUGETBy Jon Marozick & Loren Halvorson

WHAT IS NUGET?

NuGet is a free, open source developer focused package management system for the .NET platform intent on simplifying the process of incorporating third party libraries into a .NET application during development

By Outercurve, formerly Codeplex Foundation Not just for open source software Supported by Microsoft and OSS community

WHAT ARE PACKAGES?

The combination of one or more assemblies, settings, and files is a package

Bundled into feeds Gems are the Ruby equivalent of packages

EXAMPLES

jQuery nUnit MvcScaffolding PagedList, PagedList.Mvc Entity Framework 4.1

ADO.NET DbContext Generator is found in the full install which must downloaded from web not NuGet.

INSTALLATION

Runs on VS 2010 or VWD 2010 Installed via the Extension Manager Version 1.3 is the latest as of 4/26/11

Partnered with symbolsource.org Performance and caching

WEBSITES

nuget.org nuget.codeplex.com http://nuget.org/announcements/nuget-1.3-released http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2011/01/13/scaffold-you

r-aspnet-mvc-3-project-with-the-mvcscaffolding-package/

http://www.asp.net/entity-framework/tutorials/creating-an-entity-framework-data-model-for-an-asp-net-mvc-application