When installing a package into a project, NuGet creates a packages.config file within the project (if it doesn’t already exist) which is an exact record of the packages that are installed in the project. At the same time, a folder for the package is created within the solution level packages folder containing the package and its contents. Currently, it’s expected that the packages folder is committed to source control. The reason for this is that certain files from the package, such as assemblies, are referenced from their location in the packages folder. The benefit of this approach is that...