C H A P T E R  1

Getting Started

To get started with NuGet, some software components will be required on your system. While NuGet, in essence, is just a small, command-line executable, a lot of value comes from its integration with Visual Studio or the Visual Studio Express editions. Taking advantage of this integration offers you a seamless development workflow and enables you to work with NuGet right from within your Visual Studio installation; you’ll even have a nice user interface to work with.

We’ll elaborate on working with NuGet from within Visual Studio in Chapter 2. Before that, this chapter will help you prepare your workstation and get all the prerequisites to work with NuGet in your development process, including installing Visual ...

Get Pro NuGet now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.