Creating a NuGet package with NuGet Package Explorer

In this recipe, we will create a NuGet package with .NET 4.5.1 in order to use it in an ASP.NET CORE application under DNX 4.5.1.

How to do it...

1. Let's open Visual Studio 2015 and create a class library:

2. We will now create a class in this library:

3. Right-click on the project name and then click on Properties.
4. We will set the project build option to Release Mode.
5. We will then check the Generate XML documentation.

6. To create a package, we will need the DLL and the associated XML documentation, which are the .xml comments in the code:

7. Let's build the library. We can see the output window result for this build.

8. We can see the DLL and the XML files that are generated:

9. Let's download NuGet Package Explorer on the Codeplex website, at https://npe.codeplex.com/. This is a free tool to create and explore NuGet packages very easily:

Here's a look at the installation screen:

10. We will now launchNuGetPackageExplorer.application.exe and select File | New | Create...