https://github.com/cxuesong/nugetdepends

A simple command line tool that helps you sort out the NuGet package dependency hierarchy in packages.config.
https://github.com/cxuesong/nugetdepends

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A simple command line tool that helps you sort out the NuGet package dependency hierarchy in packages.config.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/cxuesong/nugetdepends
• Owner: CXuesong
• License: mit
• Created: 2018-02-03T14:39:42.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-02-03T14:40:02.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-30T02:37:56.742Z (about 2 months ago)
• Topics: nuget
• Language: C#
• Size: 57.6 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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# NuGetDepends

A simple command line tool that helps you sort out the NuGet package dependency hierarchy in `packages.config`. Hopefully, this tool can reduce the pain when you are migrating an existing project to .NET Standard / .NET Core.

## Prerequisite

*   [.NET Core 2.x Runtime/SDK](https://www.microsoft.com/net/download)

## Usage

*   `git clone` this repository

*   change the current directory to `NuGetDepends` project folder

*   `dotnet run ConfigPath --framework:Framework`, where

    *   `ConfigPath` is the location of your `packages.config`, i.e. NuGet config file for .NET Framework projects

    *   `Framework` is the target framework of your project.

## Example

There is a `packages.config` in Microsoft's [`BotBuilder-Azure`](https://github.com/Microsoft/BotBuilder-Azure/tree/master/CSharp/Library/Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Azure) , a .NET Framework 4.6 library with 24 NuGet package dependencies. Obviously, some of the packages are only the dependencies of other packages. When migrating this library to .NET Standard, I need to figure out a minimal set of packages so I could keep the migrated csproj file clean & tidy.

In the project directory, use this tool as follows

```powershell

dotnet run "E:\Repos\BotBuilder-Azure\CSharp\Library\Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Azure" -framework:net46

```

After a while, the package dependency tree will be shown as follows

![BotBuilderAzure](Images/BotBuilderAzure.png)

So for a minimal set of references, ideally I only have to add the following NuGet packages in my new csproj file

*   EntityFramework

*   Microsoft.Azure.DocumentDB

*   Microsoft.Bot.Builder.History

*   Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocol.Extensions

*   NuGet.CommandLine

*   WindowsAzure.Storage

After some adjustments, I will be able to sort them out, such as choosing appropriate .NET Standard counterparts of the packages listed above, and ultimately, [migrate this library to .NET Standard](https://github.com/CXuesong/BotBuilder-Azure-Standard).