Featured : November 23, 2021

A .NET 5.0 Guide: From Idea To NuGet Package

Photo by Yeo Khee

As technology evolves and we progress as a community, I notice that older blog posts erode in their helpfulness. One of the topics I find myself constantly having to relearn, especially as an OSS author, is the ability to start a new project, build a continuous integration pipeline, and get my package to NuGet. It’s essential to understand how to design a workflow that works with your project, and in this post, we’ll take a step-by-step walkthrough of how to do just that.

We’ll be using some NuGet packages, the dotnet CLI, and GitHub Actions to build a workflow accessible, and more importantly, understandable for most .NET developers. So let’s get into it.

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