Since OData extends the ATOM feed and you can hook an OData feed up to any RSS reader I set out to find a way to get at those recent updates to the NuGet feed and find out when new packages were published. Happy Setting up your Dev Machine! What’s happening on the NuGet feed (leveraging OData in an RSS reader)Įver since NuGet came online I’ve been wanting a way to find out about new packages, and updates to packages. Plug that into your RSS reader and you should be notified when new packages are added to the feed. The direct RSS link I have is as follows: You can get more background on this approach by following my previous post What’s happening on the NuGet feed (leveraging OData in an RSS reader) Now that you have chocolatey installed, head over to the website and browse the packages you can now install.Ĭ:\Code> chocolatey install notepadplusplus How can I know when new packages are added to the feed? iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString("")) Just paste the below command in your powershell prompt and let er rip.įirst, make sure you have your powershell environment set to “Unrestricted”. It’s about as simple to install Chocolatey as it is to use Chocolatey to install other applications. Ok, my above salesmanship is a little loud mouthy, but maybe your interest is peaked enough to give it a try. Either way I like this project and I’m just trying to share it with the community. I am also going to assume that most of them aren’t catered to the windows developer (maybe I’m wrong). I know there are other installer applications out there that aggregate and install different programs however, to be honest, I don’t use any of them. What could be simpler than finding the app’s website, download the app, and next, next, next through the the installer? How about just typing “chocolaty install notepadplusplus” at a powershell command prompt? That simple little command will download and install Notepad right on your machine with virtually no need to interact with the installer. If you’ve not ever used a linux machine or understand what the power of an “apt-get” like tool is, well It’s basically the simplest possible way to install an application to your machine. What is Chocolatey?Ĭhocolatey NuGet is a Machine Package Manager, somewhat like apt-get, but built with windows in mind. Every developer (at least those on Windows) should know about this project, if for nothing more than to make life setting up your dev machine a piece of cake. If you haven’t heard of it, you’re about to be delighted.
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