GET NEW STUFF WITH NUGET By 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   3-project-with-the-mvcscaffolding-package/ 3-project-with-the-mvcscaffolding-package/  framework-data-model-for-an-asp-net-mvc-application framework-data-model-for-an-asp-net-mvc-application