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NuGet - If a type or DLL name is given, how can I find the NuGet package?

I find blog posts about implementing features like OWIN integration or IAuthenticationFilter

Web API 2, but I can never figure out which NuGet package (s) I need.

I seem to have accidentally googled stuff and looked through GitHub projects, other blogs were hoping to find some kind of clue.

Considering everything goes NuGet, is there a better way? Package Mass Index> Assembly> Types?

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There is exactly what you want and it is called reverse package lookup, but only for ASP.NET 5 packages - at least for now. You can do your search here: Reverse Package Search



Example request: Finding System.String

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I'm curious that VS 2015 offers packages by type name.

See Adding Missing NuGet Packages in ASP.NET 5 at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2015/04/29/new-asp-net-features-and-fixes-in-visual- studio-2015-rc.aspx



Maybe VS vNext should wait for an answer, but of course there is an open API that this system uses and maybe a way to search through NuGet.org?

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