'Manage NuGet Packages for Solution' should provide UI to limit versions for packages

[vsfeedback]

This issue has been moved from a ticket on Developer Community.

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If I want to ensure that my Visual Studio solution does not update a package beyond a certain version, I can manually edit the packages.config file, but there should be a UI in 'Manage NuGet Packages for Solution' for this task.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/concepts/package-versioning#semantic-versioning-200

My common scenario is that I want to ensure that I get all of the latest updates for Umbraco and related packages, but I do not want to be offered any that require me to upgrade Umbraco from version 7 to version 8.

If I do not manually edit the packages.config with:
allowedVersion=(,8.0)
... I get a lot of "noise" in the UI for package updates I would not want.

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Original Comments

Visual Studio Feedback System on 11/1/2019, 00:21 AM:

Thank you for taking the time to provide your suggestion. We will do some preliminary checks to make sure we can proceed further. We'll provide an update once the issue has been triaged by the product team.

[rrelyea]

Interesting scenario to consider - related to Central Version Package Management - @anangaur @cristinamanum @zivkan

[nkolev92]

I guess the ask here is more about packages.config allowedversions concept.

[anangaur]

Another related request: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/idea/1009192/add-option-to-ignore-a-nuget-package-update.html

[aortiz-msft]

Closing this old issue. Please feel free to create a new one if this is something you'd like to see.