Consuming Your First NuGet Package

In this section, we'll show you how you can consume your first NuGet package. Using the tools that are integrated into Visual Studio by installing the NuGet Visual Studio Extension, as explained in Chapter 2, we'll search for a NuGet package from the public NuGet repository.

images Note To most NuGet users, the term “NuGet repository” describes the source of NuGet packages, but to others, this is a “NuGet feed.” In essence, both names are correct: since we're talking about a source of NuGet packages, it is a repository. Since those repositories are exposed to the world as an ATOM (XML) feed, the term “feed” is also ...

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