Search for owning NuGet Package of an assembly in Visual Studio 2019

Question

I have an assembly that is causing me problems (Sigil v4.7). I can see that it is in my project (via AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies() and Object Browser).

But I can't figure out what NuGet package brought it in.

Visual Studio has a Tree View of packages:

But short of drilling all the way down all of them, I cannot find a way to see which package is causing an assembly to be included in my project.

Is there a way to search to find which NuGet Package caused Sigil 4.7 to be added to my project?

Answer 1

Looks like you can search for dependencies by name in the solution explorer:

If you can't find it there, you can look at the <Project>.deps.json file in the bin\<Configuration>\<Platform> folder.

For example, I have a project called Potato.csproj building in Debug for net core 3.0, so the file is bin\Debug\netcoreapp3.0\Potato.deps.json

It lists all dependencies, as well as what project a dependency came from.