What is the difference between .nupkg and .zip?
- Name
- NuGet Package
- Zipped File
- Extension
- .nupkg
- .zip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Developer
- Compressed
- Developer
- Microsoft, .NET Foundation
- Phil Katz
- Description
- NuGet (pronounced "New Get") is a package manager designed to enable developers to share reusable code. It is a software-plus-service solution whose client app is free and open-source.
- A ZIP file is an archive that contains one or more files compressed or "zipped" using Zip compression. It stores files separately from each other allowing the files to be compressed using different methods and extracted without compressing or decompressing the entire archive.
- MIME Type
- application/zip
- application/zip
- Sample
- sample.zip
- Wikipedia
- .nupkg on Wikipedia
- .zip on Wikipedia