Installing Nuget package with package manager console step by step overview.

I have already blogged about NuGet in earlier post about how to install NuGet packages to your project with wizard. NuGet Extension also provides an package manager console to add library to your projects. Let’s install a blogml package via package manager console. So if you still not installed NuGet exntension then please read my earlier post here that explains how to install the NuGet Extension.

Once you are done with installing NuGet Extension to go to package manager console. You have to click Tools->Library package manager –>Package Manager console like following.

Once you click that menu you will get package manager console like following.

One you load an command line is available to you just need to write command to find packages and then you need to write command to install packages. let’s first see how many packages are available with the NuGet Extension. So first you have to write ‘get-package –remote’ command in command line to see what packages are available as following.

So It will load all the packages available in NuGet Now let’s filter some package via command. Suppose I want to install BlogML library to my project then I have to type ‘get-package –remote filter blogml’ and it will load all the packages that will contain BlogML like following.

Now let’s install BlogML library to my project for that I have to type ‘install-package blogml’ and it will install the package like following.

That’s it you can see Now your package is installed on your project and you find it in reference of your project like following.

It will also create packages.config and you can see installed packages there like following.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<packages>
 <package id="blogml" version="2.1.0" />
</packages>

So that’s it as you can see its very easy to install NuGet package and its very convenient to install packages with this. Hope this help you. Stay tuned for more… Happy Programming..

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Getting Started with NuGet Packages step by step overview.

We can all see lots of buzz about NuGet in asp.net world. So I decided to explore it. let’s explore it in some details. Following is a explanation of NuGet Extension on the code plex here.

"NuGet is a Visual Studio extension that makes it easy to add, remove, and update libraries and tools in Visual Studio projects that use the .NET Framework. When you add a library or tool, NuGet copies files to your solution and automatically makes whatever changes are needed in your project, such as adding references and changing your app.config or web.config file. When you remove a library, NuGet removes files and reverses whatever changes it made in your project so that no clutter is left."

So in simple words is a Visual Studio Extension which will help you the add,remove and update libraries in your visual studio project.

Installing NuGet

Let’s see how we can install it. For that first you have to go thorough the Tools->Extension Manager and then search for nuget and it will appear in the list like below.

After that click on download and it will download and install it from the web. Make sure your computer has access to internet. Once you download your nugest extension it will ask you to restart visual studio. So once your are restarted you are ready with nuget packages.

How to install packages with NuGet

Here, I am going to install Entity Framework code first CTP 5 package with NuGet. To install that package first you have to go right click your project and then click add Library Reference Package like following.

After that a reference dialog will appear their you have click online and search entity as we need to install entity framework ctp. After searching the right package click on install it will start installing your package. Following is screen host of add library package reference dialog.

After clicking install EFlicence dialog will appear like this.

Click on I Accept and install will install package.After installing package a green icon will appear on top as indication of your successful installation like following.

Now after clicking on close if you see on your project reference An Entity framework is added to your project reference like following.

Also you can see a package.config will be added to your project. like following.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<packages>
<package id="EFCodeFirst" version="0.8" />
</packages>

That's it your package is installed and ready to use in your application. There is another way of adding packages with package console is also there. I will explain this on future blog posts. Hope you liked this. Stay tuned for more..

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Programmatically creating asp.net request and handling response

Recently one of the my friends asked about how to create a web request in asp.net to a url outside of project. So I decided to write a small blog post regarding this. This web request can be easily created with httpwebrequest class and you can easily consume the response we are getting from this. This kind of request can be very useful when you are implementing payment gateways or other third party components. Following is a code for it. It is very easy.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;

namespace Experiment
{
   public partial class WebForm1 : System.Web.UI.Page
   {
       protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
       {
           string url = "http://localhost:1798/WebForm2.aspx";
           HttpWebRequest httpWebRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
           httpWebRequest.Method = "POST";
           httpWebRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";

           HttpWebResponse httpWebResponse = (HttpWebResponse)httpWebRequest.GetResponse();
           Stream responseStream = httpWebResponse.GetResponseStream();
           StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(responseStream);
           string response = streamReader.ReadToEnd();

           Response.Write(Response);
       }
   }
}

Here in the above code you can see I have created a webrequest with system.net name space and then I have typecast that request in HttpWebRequest Class. There are several parameters are available with request like method which HTML submit method you want to use like “Get” or “Post”. After that I have created a object of HTTPResponse and then with the help of stream reader I have print a response we are getting from the URL.

That’s it. It’s very easy. Hope you will find it useful. Stay tuned for more. Happy Programming..

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