Support for Microsoft.Build.CentralPackageVersions

[loligans]

It would be very nice if completion information could be provided for projects that use: Microsoft.Build.CentralPackageVersions and its Packages.props file.

Project location here: https://github.com/microsoft/MSBuildSdks/tree/main/src/CentralPackageVersions

• How it works is when you define a: Directory.Build.targets
• You add the Central Package Management Package to the Directory.Build.targets

<Project>
  <Sdk Name="Microsoft.Build.CentralPackageVersions" Version="2.1.3" />
</Project>

• Then create a Packages.props
• Add your packages (Note: the usage of the Update attribute. I am unable to get completion information from this PackageReference when there is no Include attribute. In addition, GlobalPackageReference properties do not provide completions either. As an aside: when I do provide an Include attribute, MSBuild does provide completion information):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">

    <ItemGroup>
        <GlobalPackageReference Include="Nerdbank.GitVersioning" Version="3.5.109" PrivateAssets="all" />
        <PackageReference Update="System.Text.Json" Version="6.0.5" />
    </ItemGroup>

</Project>

• In your Directory.Build.props or .csproj files, you add your Package Reference (Note: The Version attribute intentionally left out):
  <PackageReference Include="System.Text.Json" />

[tintoy]

Interesting! Yeah I think we could support this (it’d currently ignore any package elements that didn’t match the expected format). I’ll take a look at this tomorrow morning and see what would be involved 🙂

[tintoy]

Still looking into this (sorry, been pretty busy at work this week) 🙂

[loligans]

No problem, I appreciate you looking into this 😌

[jeroenhabets]

@tintoy, @loligans Please note that deprecated CentralPackageVersions [1] has been superseded by Central Package Management [2].

Therefore I strongly suggest to add support for Central Package Management and its Directory.Packages.props file.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/MSBuildSdks/tree/main/src/CentralPackageVersions#deprecated
[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/consume-packages/Central-Package-Management