http://fsprojects.github.io/Paket/
It removes so much pain compared to raw usage of Nuget and is very easy to learn/adopt.
We have a very large number of projects and migrating them all to paket would be a hassle, so I'd be interested in what pain in particular it removes?
I'm no fan of nuget I can tell you, but I'd be interested to understand what you feel the big wins are
ensure consistency of dependencies across repository (can't do that with so many packages.config files)
* easy to figure out outdated dependencies / update those with changes that are very easy to diff
* no need to battle with transitive dependencies
* several transitive dependencies resolution algorithm (max can be used to be as up-to-date as possible)
* ease support for multi platform targeting (it puts conditionals around the references, when you switch platform, it switches to correct assemblies without you having to do anything)
* will write/maintain binding redirects related to nuget packages for you (saves from many runtime errors)
* can generate include scripts for nuget packages if you do .csx or .fsx scripting
* many more things
the UI integration in VS is not as good but if you look at it, the UI is also part of the problem with Nuget (doesn't work on several solutions, doesn't really understand transitive dependencies, etc.).
You can migrate with single command line, and start improving from then on.
The satellite services communicate with each other through my LanguageExt.Process system which is a clustered actor-library, and so as long as the message formats stay the same they can be built and updated separately.
Each solution has a '<project name>.Dependencies' csproj included that contains all of the nu-get dependencies. It builds to ../bin, and then all of the projects in the solution add their dependencies from there. That means it's relatively easy to manage the dependencies for each solution.
There's a manual element of waiting for a project to build [on TeamCity] before updating the references in projects that depend on it, but on the whole it's not been too bad.
