Preparing Your Workstation

A small set of tools is essential to develop with NuGet. Whether you are a VB.NET or C# developer, whether you develop in Windows Forms, Web Forms, Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC (Model-View-Controller) or for a Windows Phone, you will need Visual Studio 2010 or one of the Visual Studio 2010 Express editions.

NuGet is supported in the following development environments:

• Visual Studio 2010 Express
• Visual Web Developer 2010
• Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1
• Visual Studio 2010 Professional
• Visual Studio 2010 Premium
• Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
• SharpDevelop

If you do not have access to the Professional, Premium, or Ultimate editions, you can find some free Visual Studio Express versions at www.microsoft.com/express.

In this book, most examples will use Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate. Keep in mind that the Visual Studio integration is identical across all versions listed in this section, and all versions are equally suited to our purposes. This book will not cover SharpDevelop, but its NuGet integration is similar to that of Visual Studio 2010.