Creating your first NuGet package

Here, we will dive straight into action. We’ll walk through the process of creating a simple NuGet package from scratch, covering every step from initial setup to publishing. This hands-on experience will help reinforce the concepts introduced in the previous section and prepare you for more advanced package creation.

Let’s break this down further. First, we’ll create a new .NET Standard library project in Visual Studio. This type of project is ideal for creating NuGet packages because it’s compatible with multiple .NET frameworks. Let’s get started with the steps:

1. Open Visual Studio and select New Project.
2. For this example, choose .NET Standard under the C# section.
3. Name the project (e.g., MyFirstPackage) and click OK.

Next, we’ll write the package content by adding some sample code to our project. For this example, let’s create a simple utility class that converts temperatures...