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@chris stanyon - thanks . this is helpful. <br />
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so is newer version, using package manager console and donwloading the package. you can tell, I'm new to this. <br />
so what's the purpose of this, if we have to manually download packages. how is nuget helpful?
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@chris stanyon - thanks . this is helpful.

so is newer version, using package manager console and donwloading the package. you can tell, I'm new to this.
so what's the purpose of this, if we have to manually download packages. how is nuget helpful?

mikha

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a c# solution has multiple projects with a .nuget project/folder as well. Inside it is the executable NuGet.exe. <br />
what is the purpose of this executable and I see this executable is checked into the source code repository too. <br />
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does this executable , download the latest packages or packages needed for the project, like we run a command &quot;nuget get package &quot;&nbsp;in visual studio. <br />
why do we need the executable though , for this?
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a c# solution has multiple projects with a .nuget project/folder as well. Inside it is the executable NuGet.exe. 
what is the purpose of this executable and I see this executable is checked into the source code repository too. 

does this executable , download the latest packages or packages needed for the project, like we run a command "nuget get package " in visual studio. 
why do we need the executable though , for this?

nuget package executable

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