Summary

In this chapter, we've gone further than simply consuming packages and publishing packages to the official NuGet package source. We've shown you a variety of reasons to why you may want to have your own NuGet feed.

The reasons for hosting your own NuGet feed were as simple as filtering the official NuGet package source and mirroring packages from it and as complex as advanced scenarios like security, privacy, and protecting intellectual property.

We've covered several options of creating your own NuGet feed. The easiest solution was using a folder or network file share to distribute packages. The NuGet.Server package, the NuGet Gallery, and the Orchard Gallery allowed you to expose NuGet feeds and packages through a URL and allow you ...

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