Item: NuGet
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with NuGet

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

NuGet helps to create packages that can be shared over the public and private networks. The package mainly contains useful code in the form of dlls and the other necessary files required. The consumer of packages is mainly .Net projects. With the help of a visual studio, it can be easily downloaded and used.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Maintains package repository very well
Integration with the Visual Studio editor
Easy upload and downloads

Cons

Incomplete download resume in case of network disruptions
Adding user friendly platform to add and update the packages
Package creation option in Visual Studio

Most Important Features

Publish useful packages
Share the published packages across different projects
Using existing publicly available free packages

Return on Investment

Saves a rework by sharing the common functionalities across the projects
Helped to optimize the given package using a central repository
Helped to make use of existing useful packages

Alternatives Considered

Didn't use another package manager as NuGet was our favorite since the beginning.

Key Insights

Do you think NuGet delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with NuGet's feature set?

Yes

Did NuGet live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of NuGet go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy NuGet again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Azure DevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server)

Likelihood to Recommend

Whenever your projects need some packages which are available on NuGet it is easy to consume them with the help of tools such as Visual Studio, and MSBuild. We can add customized functionality to existing packages and can host them as a separate packages easily. Packages that depend on other packages are well managed by NuGet.

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NuGet Package manager to manage , host and consume the packages