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What do you like best about NuGet?

Great for getting pre written class libraries with package installation that is very smooth. Also it has extensive set of features but that aren't opinioned. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NuGet?

Most libraries aren't very up to date, and could sometimes want a total rewrite from your end. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NuGet solving and how is that benefiting you?

Nu get gets you many packages that makes your solutions very easy. Also package installation and require is simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is NuGet?

NuGet is the package manager for .NET. The NuGet client tools provide the ability to produce and consume packages. The NuGet Gallery is the central package repository used by all package authors and consumers.

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NuGet is the package manager for .NET. The NuGet client tools provide the ability to produce and consume packages. The NuGet Gallery is the central package repository used by all package authors and consumers.


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5.0 out of 5
"Best open source libraries collection in .Net World"
We can search any libraries that we need and update was more easy then any others packages systems
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"It turns out to be a very good acquisition for developing programs."
It turns out to be a very good acquisition for developing programs in a quite simple way and without many complications, the fact that it does not ...
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"Nuget is an essential tool in the modern developers toolkit"
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What do you like best about NuGet?

We can search any libraries that we need and update was more easy then any others packages systems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NuGet?

It should automatically detect what version we are using and what we should install Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NuGet solving and how is that benefiting you?

As a .Net developer, All the time I am using for my daily work in the office or at home. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about NuGet?

It turns out to be a very good acquisition for developing programs in a quite simple way and without many complications, the fact that it does not have an IDE or its own interface but that all commands are executed by console makes it a very good option for running new programs as it becomes a quite cost-effective option by not consuming many machine resources, its ease of use and learning is truly admirable and its stability and practicality are also quite positive, the fact that it has multiple integrations makes it an excellent option to enhance all its functionalities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NuGet?

I have nothing to complain about regarding that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NuGet solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has been of great help to me in designing new programs that allow me to optimize different areas of my company in a quite fast, efficient, and safe way, which for me turns out to be something very useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about NuGet?

Easy to use. Either utilizing IDE tooling or as a stand alone command line tool. Integrated into the majority of developments and devops tools chains. It provides painless and seamless integrations of 3rd party libraries and tooling to your applications without much technical knowledge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NuGet?

End quality is dependent on the actual package developer. Sometimes circular chain dependencies can be created forcing work around inside the software. Command line tooling can take some work to get used to and the package viewer software is lacking features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NuGet solving and how is that benefiting you?

No more tracking down dozens of dependencies or committing 3rd part code to your repositories. Nuget alleviates most of the difficulties in consuming 3rd party libraries in you custom solutions. In the past resolving deep dependably trees in 3rd party libraries was a nightmare but Nuget has made it a practical part of an effective software development life cycle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about NuGet?

I like the availability of packages and the ease of downloading them with the VS GUI. It's nice to have a set in stone standard too, unlike most other programming languages/platforms. It's also nice that you don't really have to see any of the behind the scenes things that happen with NuGet unless something goes wrong. When using VS, you don't ever have to know the command line commands because of the GUI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NuGet?

When I have to reinstall my packages because uninstalling didn't go correctly or when I find missing dependencies. This is rare though, and is usually a result of human error.

The packages file can become a mess if trying to sort through an error. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering NuGet:

It's the standard for Visual Studio .NET C#/VB applications. It's a good standard and is usually great to use. You are almost forced to use it if you want to be productive in this kind of environment. That isn't a bad thing either because it is a great tool.

If third party dependencies are an issue, there are a ton of packages from Microsoft themselves as well. Anything that can be done with a third party can be done with the MSFT packages except for maybe UI helpers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NuGet solving and how is that benefiting you?

Solving issues surrounding "re-inventing the wheel." NuGet is an efficient way to share code that has been written, tested, and optimized for repeated functionality like API requests, UI, and dependency injection.

Doing things the right way doesn't involve making everything from scratch, even if that means having some third party dependencies in your code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about NuGet?

Integration with IDE VS makes life easier

It's easier finding any new packages from the marketplace and plug it in with Nu get Manager.

Nu get command line is yet another favourite of mine Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NuGet?

Haven't had any issues in the recent past.

Although there are times when the performance gets deteriorated which might seem a temporary glitch in accessing packages and integrating Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering NuGet:

I would recommend to other engineers in the .Net community its a easy integration with VS code or Studio Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NuGet solving and how is that benefiting you?

Like i mentioned the package manager does all you need takes away the pain of upgrading to latest Libraries.

Command line works brilliant when CI integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Andrianto Dwi L.
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What do you like best about NuGet?

- Helps sharing .Net libraries across the teams and projects.

- Backward compatibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NuGet?

- Sometimes failed to upload the new package using nuget CLI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NuGet solving and how is that benefiting you?

- Sharing common libraries that used by different teams and different projects.

- Some projects use the old package, still able to be compiled and run. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about NuGet?

After 10 years of working with .NET code, when I started using Nuget I thought, why? Why should I use an slow tool that sometimes fail when I can reference directl my dlls. The reason is automation, version managing among projects, auto-deploy of versions on cloud environments... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NuGet?

NuGet sometimes is super slow when updating packages and forces some kind of folder structures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering NuGet:

If you use external .NET libraries, use Nuget PLEASE Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NuGet solving and how is that benefiting you?

Referencing external libraries and managing different versions of them among projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Maksim K.
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What do you like best about NuGet?

I really liked integration into Visual Studio and MS Builder:

* It is really easy to install and update packages with it;

* In CI it allows restoring packages on the project building process; Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NuGet?

I dislike that there is no installer of nuget.exe which allows to use it globally (without manually setting it in PATH).

There is also no default tool with UI for packages publishing automatization; I had to write my own tool and share it with colleges to increase the speed of building and publishing NuGet packages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering NuGet:

I suggest making nuget.exe global command as soon as possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NuGet solving and how is that benefiting you?

We solve the problem of sharing .net libraries between applications with this tool. It's easy to use, it's easy to restore on a project building Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Marothi M.
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What do you like best about NuGet?

Handy when there’s not time to write your own class libraries.

Documentation is straightforward.

Package installation is seamless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NuGet?

Devs who rely on it too much treat a lot of solutions like “black boxes”.

There are times where you’ll be forced to write your own implementations even though you’re chasing deadlines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering NuGet:

Building your own packages and putting them on NuGet to help other with their development is great way of keeping your skills on point.

Do not rely too much on Nuget packages. It is good practice to write your own implementations on a regular basis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NuGet solving and how is that benefiting you?

Full stack web dev projects.

Common eCommerce solutions such as the stripe and PayPal packages are quite handy.

Can save time instead of writing your own pagination libraries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about NuGet?

Nu get is package manager for .net and visual C++. It has lot of features but they are not very well constrained like other package managers out there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NuGet?

There were certain times when even using a simple library from nuget fell into issues of how it should be used. A package manager should be simple, not adding more issues to a developer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering NuGet:

There is particular alternative to nuGet but it not the most perfect package manager tools out there. There are some issues in how the packages can be used within certain applications, and there will be a lot of configs to make, VS makes it fast but not easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NuGet solving and how is that benefiting you?

We were trying to make our CRM system using .net and had to get some packages that an partner company shared with us. Nuget has very little benefit to our workflow, we eventually had to just copy-paste 2 modules to our working directory as we were facing with some issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.