This presentations explains why NuGet is more than just a great way to keep your third-party libraries up-to-date in your .NET solutions. Discover how NuGet can enable you to deliver more features and more business value faster by improving how you manage the core internal libraries.

In .NET software development, old-school branch-per-feature meant that branches were large and long living to avoid having to integrate because it was a pain as the feature would diverge further and further from other features or the mainline. Including and excluding features from what needs to be shipped should be a smooth process.

NuGet is an open source Visual Studio extension that makes it easy to install and update third-party libraries and tools in Visual Studio for .NET developers. It brings libraries together in one gallery and accelerates getting started with a project. It makes it easy to incorporate these libraries in a solution. In this talk, Phil Haack, project coordinator for NuGet, will describe the problem that NuGet solves, how to make effective use of it, and some tips and tricks around the newer features of NuGet.

Learn how to deploy an application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk, configure an Amazon RDS for SQL Server DB instance and manage your configuration, all within Visual Studio. The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio streamlines your development, deployment and testing inside your familiar .NET IDE.

OpenWrap is an open source package manager for .NET. This video explores all the lesser–known features of OpenWrap: how builds, tests, commands, tooling and deployment are handled by the OpenWrap platform, how to extend packages to provide your own components in your application, and how any application can become pluggable and publishable by leveraging the core OpenWrap infrastructure.