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This is so very subject to change. Take it as a general direction, not as a schedule or commitment. Here's aquery for all fixed bugs.

Release Month Theme 1.4 June Package Visualizer, Update all packages, Solution level package manager, #231 Auth’ed Proxy Support 1.5 July Bug Fixes 1.6 Aug Improve Support for CI Scenarios

Intro

NuGet is a free, open source developer focused package managementsystem for the .NET platform intent on simplifying the process ofincorporating third party libraries into a .NET application duringdevelopment. NuGet is a member of the ASP.NET Gallery inthe Outercurve Foundation (see the press release).

There are a large number of useful 3rd party open source libraries outthere for the .NET platform, but for those not familiar with the OSSecosystem, it can be a pain to pull these libraries into a project.

Let’s take ELMAH as an example. It’s a fine error logging utility whichhas no dependencies on other libraries, but is still a challenge tointegrate into a project. These are the steps it takes:

1. Find ELMAH
2. Download the correct zip package.
3. “Unblock” the package.
4. Verify its hash against the one provided by the hosting environment.
5. Unzip the package contents into a specific location in the solution.
6. Add an assembly reference to the assembly.
7. Update web.config with the correct settings which a developer needs to search for.

And this is for a library that has no dependencies. Imagine doing thisfor NHibernate.Linq which has multiple dependencies each needing similarsteps. We can do much better!

NuGet automates all these common and tedious tasks for a package as wellas its dependencies. It removes nearly all of the challenges ofincorporating a third party open source library into a project’s sourcetree. Of course, using that library properlyis still up to the developer.

Here's a small sampling of what NuGet can do:

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Last edited Jun 8 at 4:24 AM by shanselman, version 59