A Visual Studio extension that checks and notifies about available updates for the installed NuGet packages in the current solution.
PackageReference
itemsDependent on the size of the solution it may take some time until the info bars appear.
The package manager can be opened via the entry in the Tools
menu.
The package manager shows all installed packages of the current solution. Updating a single package is just one click, multiple packages can be updated via the tool bar button after selecting the packages.
Compared to the original NuGet Package Manager updating packages is very fast, because the package version is instantly updated without validation against other packages - however version conflicts may show up only at the next build and have to be resolved manually.
Shared package references, e.g. in the Directory.Build.props
file, are handled gracefully, and will not be replaced by Update
entries in every project.
This view allows to investigate how transitive depdencies are introduced into the projects.
It lists all transitive dependencies per project, and shows their ancestor tree, where the terminal bold entry is the package reference used in the project.
A big thanks goes to AnushaG2201!
I was playing with the idea for this extension for quite a while but never figured out how I would create this extension.
That is until I saw the Nuget-updates-notifier (GitHub) which gave me the remaining puzzle pieces, so that I could create my own version.
A big thanks goes to tom-englert!
A massive improvement PR really improved the quality of this extension.
NuGet Client SDK / NuGet.Protocol
Visual Studio Extensibility Cookbook - Notifications