Nuget as a package manager

Question

I'm looking to work on an application, an internal toolbelt if you will.

Rather than having users messing around with DLL's for the differing tools (they plug in via MEF) I was wondering if it's possible to jump on the back of Nuget?

I'd build the tools, package them as nuget packages and host them internally and the toolbelt application would then query the catalog, retrieve and extract etc etc.

Does anybody know of a way this is possible?

Answer 1

Chocolatey uses nuget as an underlying package manager to install applications on your pc.

http://chocolatey.org/

So I'm sure it's possible, but I've not done it myself.

The nuget documentation discusses a command line and power shell reference: http://docs.nuget.org/

Also linqpad, does something similar (in the paid for version), where you can include dll's from nuget. There is a screen shot on this page: http://www.linqpad.net/purchase.aspx