将 Visual Studio Package 管理器控制台用于其他解决方案

Question

My source code is composed of many solutions . In order to collect information on the installed packages (version, license, etc.) of each solution, I'm looking for a way to organize it automatically. As I know so far there is an option to use the Get-Package command via the Visual Studio Package Manager Console, or to use the do.net list package command

The problem:

Get-Package - Seems to be available only from a specific solution and only for this specific solution. Since I have many solutions it's not a trivial solution

do.net list package - It gets a solution as a parameter so I can run it on every solution, bu it works only for the new csproj files, but I have many old csproj files

The preferred way for me is to use the Powershell command available in the console since I have the option to get the license URL from it by using this command:

Get-Package | Select-Object Id, Version, LicenseUrl, ProjectName

Is there a way to run the above command in one solution for all other solutions (assuming I can get easily the solutions list) or it requires to run only from a specific solution each time?

Answer 1

If you want to use do.net list package to get packages from your solution which includes old and new csproj , you can migrate from packages.config to PackageReference. Please refer to doc: Migrate .

But there are some Limitations: Migration is not currently available for C++ and ASP.NET projects.

Notice: You'd better make backup before migration to prevent unexpected effects of upgrades

If you want to use Get-Package to get packages for other solutions, you can add Parameter ListAvailable to list packages available from a package source. Suppose the packages you download in your multiple solutions are from nuget.org, you can set nuget.org as package source. It will return all packages in multiple solutions from specified source.

For example

Get-Package  -ListAvailable | Select-Object Id, Version, ProjectName,LicenseUrl

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