Short version: Install-Package ProNuget or http://amzn.to/pronuget

It’s been a while since I wrote my first book. After I’ve been telling that writing a book is horrendous (try writing a chapter per week after your office hours…) and that I would never write on again, my partner-in-crime Xavier Decoster and I had the same idea at the same time: what about a book on NuGet? So here it is: Pro NuGet is fresh off the presses (or on Kindle).

Special thanks go out to Scott Hanselman and Phil Haack for writing our foreword. Also big kudos to all who’ve helped us out now and then and did some small reviews. Yes Rob, Paul, David, Phil, Hadi: that’s you guys.

Why a book on NuGet?

Why not? At the time we decided we would start writing a book (september 2011), NuGet was out there for a while already. Yet, most users then (and still today) were using NuGet only as a means of installing packages, some creating packages. But NuGet is much more! And that’s what we wanted to write about. We did not want to create a reference guide on what NuGet command were available. We wanted to focus on best practices we’ve learned over the past few months using NuGet.

Some scenarios covered in our book:

• What’s the big picture on package management?
• Flashback last week: NuGet.org was down. How do you keep your team working if you depend on that external resource?
• Is it a good idea to auto-update NuGet packages in a continous integration process?
• Use the PowerShell console in VS2010/11. How do I write my own NuGet PowerShell Cmdlets? What can I do in there?
• Why would you host your own NuGet repository?
• Using NuGet for continuous delivery
• More!

I feel we’ve managed to cover a lot of concepts that go beyond “how to use NuGet vX” and instead have given as much guidance as possible. Questions, suggestions, remarks, … are all welcome. And a click on “Add to cart” is also a good idea ;-)