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NuGet Introduction

NuGet is a Microsoft technology that makes it very easy to include, update, and distribute stand-alone libraries within your application. NuGet was first released a few years ago as an extension to Visual Studio 2010.

With Visual Studio 2012, NuGet is included out of the box and used extensively. For example, NuGet is used to retrieve the latest version of many project types' dependencies when projects are first created. NuGet is an excellent dependency management tool for your projects and can even include packages at build time.

NuGet Package Manager

There are a couple of ways to install NuGet packages. ...

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