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Agenda

• Nuget Feature Overview
• Nuget Components
• Consuming Packages
• Creating Packages
• Publishing Packages
• Hosting Your own Nuget Feed
• Nuget Community and Advanced Topics

Before NuGet: third-party and OSS

• Everything points towards Microsoft
• Only for those who search
• Google, Bing, CodePlex, GitHub, ...
• False competition
• Microsoft things either bundled or via a neat installer
• Hard to integrate OSS
• Compile? Find right version? Find right dependencies?

Before NuGet: sharing own code

• Shared code in source control
• Or compiled code in separate assembly
• Separate assembly on a network share or in source control
• No versioning on the assembly file
• Update nightmare ("big solutions")

NuGet!

With NuGet: third-party and OSS

• One repository: NuGet.org
• OSS and Microsoft provided libraries mixed
• Dependencies, Configuration changes, Versioning

With NuGet: sharing own code

• Create a NuGet package
• Specify dependencies, enforce versioning
• Consuming project: specify version
• Updating is a joy

What is Packages?

• A package is a bundle of something you want to reuse.
• It can have dependencies to other packages.
• It can contain files:
• Assemblies
• Content
• Tools

Of course it was inspired by...

• Linux RPM Package Manager
• Ruby Gems
• ...

NuGet in Visual Studio Releases

NuGet Architect Components

NuSpec File

This is a trivial example, you can also have specialized install and uninstall scripts referenced for complicated projects (i.e. jQuery).

Heavy use of convention in absence of declarative!

Visual Studio Integration (GUI - Update)

Visual Studio Integration (GUI - Settings)

Setup on Command Line

Powershell Commands

• Get-Package -ListAvailable
• Install-Package {packageid}
• Remove-Package {packageid}

Get into Nuget World

• nuget install automapper

From where package is coming?

NuGet.exe (command line interface)

• nuget.exe help [feature (i.e. pack)]
• Help lists commands and can be combined with a command to get info
• nuget.exe pack [PackageID].nuspec -version 1.1.0.0
• First the NuSpec is used to construct the package file via the 'pack' stage
• nuget.exe push [PackageID].nupkg [API Key] -Source [Gallery]
• Next the created NuPkg is loaded into the appropriate gallery via the 'push' stage
• nuget.exe install [packages.config file OR package id]
• When packages are in the gallery you can install them locally
• nuget.exe update [solution file OR project file]
• When packages are in the gallery you can update to latest version

Ecosystem (flow)

Ecosystem (dependencies)

Hosting Your Own Repository

• Folder / File share
• NuGet.Server package
• NuGet Gallery - www.github.com/nuget/nugetgallery
• MyGet - www.myget.org

Automate deployments

• Build results in .nupkg
• Octopus deploys to its tentacles
• Test tentacles
• Staging tentacles
• Production tentacles
• www.octopusdeploy.com

Create a packages

Hosting your own Repository in Nuget

Hosting your own Nuget Feed?

Limitation of

Resources

• NuGet Source - http://nuget.codeplex.com/
• NuGet Public Gallery - http://www.nuget.org/
• MyGet - Private Gallery as a service - https://www.myget.org/
• Author: Lawson Caudill - http://www.getthinktank.com

Where do I get it?

• VS Addin: NuGet Package Manager
• http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/27077b70-9dad-4c64-adcf-c7cf6bc9970c
• Console App
• http://nuget.codeplex.com/
• MsBuild Tasks
• http://nuget.codeplex.com/
• NuGet Explorer
• http://nuget.codeplex.com/
• Gallery Server
• http://galleryserver.codeplex.com/

Appendix - Chocolatey

• NuGet
• developer library packages
• Chocolatey
• applications and tools packager
• "yum" or "apt-get" for Windows
• www.chocolatey.org

Questions ???

Thanks !!