visual studio code - How do I update all NuGet packages at once with the dotnet CLI?

Question

I'm trying to update all NuGet packages for a solution in VS Code (using Mac). Is there a way to achieve that in VS code or for a specific project.json file? At the moment I'm going one by one but I would have thought there is either an extension or a feature that does that for you?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41080749/how-do-i-update-all-nuget-packages-at-once-with-the-dotnet-cli

Answer 1

Based on Jon Canning's powershell solution. I fixed a small bug where only the first dependency was being updated and not all the dependencies for the project file.

$regex = 'PackageReference Include="([^"]*)" Version="([^"]*)"'

ForEach ($file in get-childitem . -recurse | where {$_.extension -like "*proj"})
{
    $packages = Get-Content $file.FullName |
        select-string -pattern $regex -AllMatches | 
        ForEach-Object {$_.Matches} | 
        ForEach-Object {$_.Groups[1].Value.ToString()}| 
        sort -Unique
    
    ForEach ($package in $packages)
    {
        write-host "Update $file package :$package"  -foreground 'magenta'
        $fullName = $file.FullName
        iex "dotnet add $fullName package $package"
    }
}