Watching the software releases that Microsoft has made in recent years, it is hard to miss the great strides that the firm has made in moving towards embracing open source software. Microsoft's approach to open source software and open source projects, in general, has softened over the years to the point where open source is now valued, embraced, and recognized as an integral part of the development ecosystem.

Microsoft is now so committed to open source that they are developing a number of projects, starting with .NET Core and ASP.NET Core, to providing contributions for a number of third-party open source projects such as jQuery, Node.js, and Git.

Developers using VS2015 need an easy way to locate and find open source packages that could be used in their own projects. To help facilitate this, Microsoft supports an open source project to create a package manager for Visual Studio called the NuGet package manager. NuGet (https://www.nuget.org/) allows developers...