fast-nuget-update

A command line utility for bulk updating nuget packages references.

case

Consider you work with a huge Visual Studio solution, containing 100 projects. All of them reference some utility library, say MyUtil v1.0.0 as a nuget package. One day a library update MyUtil 1.0.1 arrives.

You open the Manage Nuget packages window, press 'Update', and... the Visual Studio hangs for 10 minutes.

Just to make it faster in simple cases, this utility was introduced.

restrictions

It is not in any sense a replacement of nuget.exe. It is a very silly and simple tool.

It does :

• not analyze any dependecies
• not support packages where main dll name differs from the package name
• not care whether the project is included in the solution or just is laid in the sln folder

usage

The tool must be run from the solution folder, assuming the packages folder is the child of solution and so are the project folders.

So, given a folder tree be like that:

/MySln/
    /packages/
    /MySln.sln
    /FirstProject/
        /FirstProject.csproj
        /packages.config
    /...
    /LastProject/
        /LastProject.csproj
        /packages.config

If we run this cmd:

    cd MySln
    fast-nuget-update --name MyUtil --version 1.0.1

All projects in MySln folder which referenced any version of MyUtil will change their references to the 1.0.1 version.

Parameters list

-n, --name
Required. The name of the package to update

-v, --version
Required. The version of the package to set

-s, --skip-downloading
Optional. Flag. If it set, no attempts would occur to download the package from package sources in the app.config file