Contents Foreword............................................................................................................... xii About the Authors................................................................................................ xiv About the Technical Reviewer .............................................................................. xv Acknowledgments ............................................................................................... xvi The Bigger Picture .............................................................................................. xvii Chapter 1: Getting Started ......................................................................................1 Preparing Your Workstation...............................................................................................1 Installing Visual Studio 2010 .................................................................................................................... 2 Installing the Essential Software .............................................................................................................. 3 Installing NuGet .................................................................................................................6 Installing the NuGet Visual Studio Extension............................................................................................ 6 Downloading the NuGet Command-Line Tool........................................................................................... 8 Installing NuGet Package Explorer ........................................................................................................... 9 Getting Further Information .............................................................................................10 Summary .........................................................................................................................11 Chapter 2: Consuming and Managing Packages in a Solution .............................13 Consuming Your First NuGet Package .............................................................................13 Integrating Visual Studio and NuGet....................................................................................................... 14 Finding the Package You Need............................................................................................................... 15 Installing a NuGet Package..................................................................................................................... 17 Where Did It Come From?....................................................................................................................... 20 v