From the course: Creating, Debugging, and Deploying NuGet Packages in ASP.NET

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Setting NuGet package metadata

Setting NuGet package metadata

From the course: Creating, Debugging, and Deploying NuGet Packages in ASP.NET

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Setting NuGet package metadata

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- [Instructor] Setting NuGet package metadata is important because it provides essential information about the package itself, such as its purpose, dependencies, versioning, and authorship. And this way you help developers understand how to use the package effectively, ensuring smooth integration into projects. There are different package metadata properties that you can use, but we're going to talk about the five most important ones. And then we're just going to navigate to Visual Studio and have a look at the rest of all the package metadata. The Id is the unique identifier for a NuGet package. It distinguishes the package from others in the NuGet ecosystem and is used to reference it during installation and updates. Version is another important metadata, and the version number indicates the specific release of the package. And as we have already mentioned, NuGet uses semantic versioning to manage version numbers which help developers understand the nature of changes in each…

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