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NuGet is the package manager for .NET. The NuGet client tools provide the
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ability to produce and consume packages. The NuGet Gallery is the central
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package repository used by all package authors and consumers.
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For .NET (including .NET Core), the Microsoft-supported mechanism for sharing
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code is NuGet, which defines how packages for .NET are created, hosted, and
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consumed, and provides the tools for each of those roles.
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Put simply, a NuGet package is a single ZIP file with the .nupkg extension that
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contains compiled code (DLLs), other files related to that code, and a
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descriptive manifest that includes information like the package's version
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number. Developers with code to share create packages and publish them to a
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public or private host. Package consumers obtain those packages from suitable
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hosts, add them to their projects, and then call a package's functionality in
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their project code. NuGet itself then handles all of the intermediate details.
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