C H A P T E R  9

NuGet As a Protocol

So far, you’ve seen how to consume and create NuGet packages and how to host your own feed containing packages. Using NuGet, we’ve managed to set up a means of continuous package delivery and extended the NuGet command line and Package Manager Console.

The concepts and techniques demonstrated in the previous chapters of this book focused on using NuGet as a means of managing dependencies when developing software using Visual Studio. We’ve looked at NuGet as a package manager. How about we change our perspective and look at NuGet as a protocol for distributing packages?

You’ve already seen that complete deployments can be shipped as NuGet packages and that complete software installations can be distributed ...

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