Pro NuGet, Second Edition

Pro NuGet will give you a solid, practical, understanding of both how to keep your software dependencies under control and what best-practices have been developed within the NuGet community to ensure long-term reliability. Whether you’re working entirely with .NET assemblies or also using CSS, HTML and JavaScript files within your applications this book will show you how to manage their requirements smoothly and reliably.

As sponsors of the NuGet project Microsoft have led the way in showing how NuGet can be used to great effect; showing how it is now virtually indispensable to anyone working with MVC and the .NET Framework.

So don’t delay! Learn how to use NuGet effectively today and thank yourself for the time and stress that this powerful free extension will save you.

NuGet is an open-source Visual Studio extension that makes it easy to manage libraries, components and configuration files from within your Visual Studio project. As every developer knows, the more complex your application becomes the more chance there is of a dependency conflict arising within the resources upon which you depend. This situation - known as “dependency hell” - used to be an arduous task to unravel and rectify. NuGet changes this situation completely saving you untold time and stress.

What you’ll learn

• Understanding how NuGet fits into the big picture of your software development process to save you time and money.
• How to keep your team working when your project depends on an external resource (such as a web service or cloud) which suddenly becomes unavailable.
• Whether or not to auto-update NuGet packages within a continuous integration process for maximum reliability and speed.
• How to combine NuGet with PowerShell to create your own Cmdlets and extend the base toolset in an extremely powerful manner.
• Evaluate the pros-and-cons of hosting your own NuGet repository.
• How to incorporate NuGet seamlessly within your continuous integration process.
• Much much more!

About the Authors

Xavier Decoster (°1984) was born in West-Flanders, Belgium, where he grew up and dreamed about becoming a pilot. At the age of 20, after two years in the Belgian Air Force, he had to change career because of an injury. Because of his strong interest in science, mathematics and electronics, he studied ICT at the Technical University of West-Flanders, where he graduated with high honors. In 2007, his internship project to remotely manage home domotics using a smartphone was nominated with an Innovation Award. Xavier worked as a software engineer and technical consultant on a variety of web projects, mainly using Microsoft technologies (incl. Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC, Windows Azure).

He wrote the book "Pro NuGet" together with Maarten Balliauw, aiming to help out all .NET developers dealing with dependency hell situations. Maarten and Xavier are early adopters of NuGet and created their own NuGet-as-a-Service solution, MyGet.org, and share their experiences and guidance in this first NuGet book.

He enjoys learning and knowledge sharing as an ALM Consultant, as an author, on his blog (xavierdecoster.com) and on Twitter (@xavierdecoster). In 2013 he was awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for Visual Studio ALM.