Demo – Introduction to Package Management Part 1

In this video, Colin Dembovsky from Northwest Cadence introduces how to produce a package in Virtual Studio Team Services.

What is package management?

Way to share binaries

• Binaries are stored within packages
  • With a strict versioning scheme
• Allows consumers to choose when to upgrade
• Examples: NuGet, npm, jspm, bower

Feeds

• Logical grouping of packages
  • With an address
• Can be secured with access control

Once you are ready, click on Mark as complete and in the following step, we will learn about Visual Studio Package Management and a package management extension.