NuGet

This is well documented elsewhere. The purpose of this post is to collate links and pull out for my own notes those features and commands that I most use, and may not recall.

NuGet Package Manager Console

Finding and Installing a NuGet Package Using the Package Manager Console and removing and updating a package

http://docs.nuget.org/docs/start-here/Using-the-Package-Manager-Console

Key commands:

1. get-help Install-Package
2. Install-Package EntityFramework
3. Unistall-Package EntityFramework
4. Get-Package EntityFramework -updates to see if there are newer versions available
5. Update-Pacakge EntityFramework

NuGet Package Explorer – Including Create Package

I have always had work to do to copy my own assemblies into common locations. NuGet offers the possibility of hosting your own NuGet feeds, which may be local.  If I understand this correctly, this looks very interesting and might solve my issue and save me some time.

http://docs.nuget.org/docs/creating-packages/creating-and-publishing-a-package#api-key

http://docs.nuget.org/docs/Creating-Packages/Hosting-Your-Own-NuGet-Feeds

This requires the NuGet Package Explorer:  http://npe.codeplex.com/

I found this would not install because I did not have .NET Framework 4.5 installed, as I am only on Visual Studio 2010. I installed 4.5 as my belief was that this would not break VS 2010. Creating the package then became easy with a few notes:

Use Tools > Analyze package to see if there are any issues.

It does like to have the target .Net Framework:

lib > net40 > myAssembly.dll

Creating your own package – Dependencies on your own packages

1. Edit Metadata
2. Edit dependencies
3. Groups + Gave me [no target framework]
4. Properties
5. Package Source *** Put in here the location of your LocalNuGetFeed *** Reload
6. Select your required package
7. open

Creating your own online NuGet package feed

TODO

http://haacked.com/archive/2011/03/31/hosting-simple-nuget-package-feed.aspx/

My favourite Nuget packages

1. Entity Framework
2. Data connection – for connection dialog box for my tool kit software

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