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How to find and install NuGet packages using Visual Studio.
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To use NuGet,
we go to this Solution Explorer, and
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right click on References in the project,
and click Manage NuGet Packages.
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NuGet opens up as a tab
in the main workspace.
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Up here we have Browse,
Installed, and Updates.
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Under Browse a list of
the most popular and
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recently downloaded packages is displayed.
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Now right away we see this
Newtonsoft.Json in the list.
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Let's ignore that for right now.
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If we want to see all of the packages
that had the word Json in their name or
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description, we can type Json
here in the search field.
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The result shown are ordered
by relevance and popularity.
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We can see that Newtonsoft.Json
is at the top of the list.
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But there are other packages that also
seem to have something to do with
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working with JSON.
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Maybe one of these packages
would better suit us.
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We can get more information
about the selected package
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by looking over here on the right side.
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This shows us details about the package.
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We see a description of the package,
the latest version number,
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a link to information about its license,
and
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a link to the web page that can
tell us more about the package.
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There isn't a lot of information here,
but we can click on this link or
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search the web for more information.
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We can tell that this Newtonsoft.json
package is by far the most popular.
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So we'll go with that for now.
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Over here beside the install button,
there's a dropdown that allows us to
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select which version of
the package we want to install.
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in most cases, the package version number
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matches the version number of
the library that it contains.
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The latest stable version of the package
that will work with the version
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of .NET that our project
targets is selected by default.
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We can opt to download a previous
version if we want though.
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And there are times we might want to
do that, which we'll talk about later.
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For now, let's install the latest
version by clicking Install.
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We'll see a confirmation dialog pop up
that confirms with us that we want to
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install the package into our solution and
add it to the JsonToDb project.
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After clicking Yes,
check out the output window down here.
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If we look up here,
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we can see that it opened a new tab
with a readme file about this library.
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The readme file contains more
information that we might want to
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know about the library.
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We'll close this for right now.
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We can see that it added a check
mark to the package, and
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if we click on the Install tab we see
it listed as an installed package.
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In the Solution Explorer we
can see what else happened.
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We can see that
the Newtonsoft.Json assembly,
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is now listed as one of our references.
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Because this is the first NuGet
package that was added to the project,
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we now have a new file in
the project named packages.config.
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Let's take a look at that file.
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It's an XML file that lists the NuGet
packages that our project depends on.
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Notice that it not only says which version
of the package our project needs but
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also which version of .NET we're
targeting when we downloaded the file.
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In order to write to the database,
we'll also need Entity Framework.
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\Entity framework is a framework for
mapping objects and
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code to objects such as
tables in a database.
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Although Entity Framework
is Microsoft product.
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It's not part of the .NET Framework.
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So we'll need to add it using NuGet.
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The list of packages that's displayed
here is called the NuGet Package Gallery.
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And as you can see, Entity Framework
is also a commonly downloaded package.
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Let's select it and
click Install to add it to our project.
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We see the confirmation dialog,
and next we see another dialog for
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us to either accept or
decline the license.
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Software and libraries that
are distributed to the public
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often have a license that dictates how
the software can and cannot be used.
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It's always up to the user of the software
to make sure that they're using it in
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compliance with its license.
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Sometimes the licenses
are very permissive.
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The most permissive licenses simply
say that the manufacturer or
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distributor of the software
is not liable for
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anything bad that might happen as
a result of using the software.
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Often times, licenses state if and
how the software can be redistributed.
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Many licenses state the circumstances
under which you may allow other people
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other than yourself to use the software or
library.
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Just because code is open source doesn't
mean we can do whatever we want with it.
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For example, some open source libraries
have fairly restrictive licenses which
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state that if you want to use
the library in your own application.
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You also have to make all of the source
code of your application available to
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the public for free.
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Unless that is,
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you have express permission from
the originator of the library.
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It doesn't matter if you're using it for
commercial purposes or not.
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I can't give you more legal
advice than this, but
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I can say that it's important to respect
the terms of all software licenses.
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And don't assume that a library can be
used in the way you expect it should be
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able to be used.
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For more information about
the various software licenses you
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might find out there, check
the teacher's notes of this workshop.
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You can read the license for
Entity Framework.
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After reading the license, I know I'm
well within the terms to download it and
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use it for what we want to do today.
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So I'm going to click I Accept.
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If you want to go back and
read the license for
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any package, you can usually find a link
to it in the package details in NuGet.
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If you see this dialog pop up,
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it just means that you have
the packages.config file open.
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It's asking if it can save
changes to an open file.
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We'll say Yes to All.
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We don't need this file open,
so I'll close it now.
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