Ooey Gooey Chocolatey NuGet

So by a show of hands, who has used or heard of Nuget?

NuGet is a sweet package manager for Visual Studio that allows you to keep your libraries up to date on your solutions.

Chocolatey is the windows version of that tool. It will download and install any application that you need and keep it up to date for you. Sounds too easy right? Well it is even easier than that. Open up your command prompt and paste in the following;

@powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy unrestricted -Command "iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('http://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET PATH=%PATH%;%systemdrive%\chocolatey\bin

Now press enter, and bam you have installed Chocolatey on your computer. So easy little Bennie from down the street could figure this out. Now once you have done this, now what?

Use their search and find some packages to install. http://chocolatey.org/

Here are a few commands to try. I use these to get a me through my day to day.

cinst git
cinst notepadplusplus
cinst 7zip
cinst fiddler
cinst hg

I could go all day with the commands,  just use the search and go. Save yourself hours searching for installers from here on out.

UPDATE 2/8/2013:

Type in the command CUP ALL and Chocolatey will update all of your packages automatically.