Developing and Distributing NuGet Packages

Creating a re-usable code library

Created by: Clyde D'Souza
Software Engineer and Author

What Will I Learn?

• Learn what NuGet is and how it's used.
• Install and use NuGet CLI locally.
• Create a code library and write tests for it.
• Learn semantic versioning.
• Create a NuGet package file and test it locally.
• Publish your NuGet package to NuGet Org.

Requirements

• Basic knowledge of C# (recommended).
• Basic familiarity with Visual Studio (recommended).
• However, if you are hungry to learn, please don’t stop yourself from watching this class.
• Download Visual Studio Community.

Target audience

• You’ve consumed NuGet in the past and want to learn how to develop and distribute your own.
• You’ve not consumed NuGet but want to learn what NuGet is and learn the entire lifecycle right from development to consumption.
• Or, you don’t want to learn about NuGet specifically but want to learn how to align your thinking while developing an independent unit of code that could potentially be reused, how to manage versioning of your code and a lot more that I would classify as derived knowledge.