Support for Nuget Central Package Management

[WolfgangHG]

It seems Sandcastle cannot resolve dependencies if "Nuget Central Package Management" is used (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/consume-packages/central-package-management)

See attached sample: in the solution root, a file "Directory.Packages.props" enables this feature and defines a list of nuget packages that are available inside this solution and the versions of these packages:

<Project>
  <PropertyGroup>
    <ManagePackageVersionsCentrally>true</ManagePackageVersionsCentrally>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <PackageVersion Include="Aspose.Cells" Version="24.3.0" />
  </ItemGroup>
</Project>

In each csproj file, the necessary packages are defined without versions:

    <PackageReference Include="Aspose.Cells" />

When building the Sandcastle project in attached sample SandcastleNuget.zip, this results in an error:

MRefBuilder : error : Unresolved assembly reference: Aspose.Cells (Aspose.Cells, Version=24.3.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=716fcc553a201e56) required by SandcastleNugetLib [C:\Temp\SandcastleNuget\SandcastleDoc\Help\Working\GenerateRefInfo-7f8e79e1-7858-4d26-ae57-03abe7d4c3a7.proj]
    Last step completed in 00:00:01,2907
</buildStep>
<buildStep step="Failed">

SHFB: Error BE0043: Unexpected error detected in last build step.  See build log for details.
   at SandcastleBuilder.Utils.BuildEngine.TaskRunner.Run(String processFilename, String targetFile, String arguments) in C:\GH\SHFB\SHFB\Source\SandcastleBuilderUtils\BuildEngine\TaskRunner.cs:line 237
   at SandcastleBuilder.Utils.BuildEngine.BuildProcess.Build() in C:\GH\SHFB\SHFB\Source\SandcastleBuilderUtils\BuildEngine\BuildProcess.cs:line 997

I could workaround it by adding the "Wildcard Assembly References" plugin and let it point to the exact dll version in my Nuget cache:

<PlugInConfig id="Wildcard Assembly References" enabled="True">
  <configuration>
    <references>
      <reference path="C:\Users\USERNAME\.nuget\packages\aspose.cells\24.3.0\lib\net6.0\" wildcard="*.dll" recurse="true" />
    </references>
  </configuration>
</PlugInConfig>

Is there a better workaround?