1. GET NEW STUFF WITH NUGET By Jon Marozick & Loren Halvorson

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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.

5. 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

6. WEBSITES  nuget.org  nuget.codeplex.com  http://nuget.org/announcements/nuget-1.3-released http://nuget.org/announcements/nuget-1.3-released  http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2011/01/13/scaffold-your-aspnet-mvc- 3-project-with-the-mvcscaffolding-package/ http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2011/01/13/scaffold-your-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 http://www.asp.net/entity-framework/tutorials/creating-an-entity- framework-data-model-for-an-asp-net-mvc-application