NuGet in Depth Making Open Source Suck Less at Microsoft Scott Hanselman

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what’s my goal here?

Make using OSS as easy as “Add Reference”

how do we do that?

BUILD UP THE DEVELOPER ECOSYSTEM

Adding a library to a project What is the experience to add an existing 3 rd Party or open source library to a project today? Let’s take a look

Like all good stories, it starts with a Google search

Like all good stories, it starts with a Bing search

So far so good in this case.

This looks right

? Turns out, this is the right one.

Looks right to me, I guess.

Before we extract it, we need to visit the Properties

Don’t forget this!

Extract assemblies to a folder within the solution directory

Need to add the correct configuration to web.config

Finally! It works!

that‘s for a single assembly!

what happens when I’m ready for build v2?

we can do much better!

PILE OF DEMOS! NuGet

NuGet is an OuterCurve Foundation Project Hosted on External contributions allowed Several external core contributors Monthly point release cadence Large uptake so far: Development

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