Automate nuget update-package operation on many VS solutions

Question

I've got 10+ Visual Studio solutions that are referencing a nuget package. When I decide to update that package in every solution it's a very long work to open each solution manually, update its package and check-in all changes to TFS. I'd like to "automate" this process with a batch operation that does it on behalf of me.

I've made some experiments with nuget.exe by command line but it doesn't care about TFS read-only files: it overwrites the content of my files without checking-out them so this way seems not the best way to do it.

Any other suggestion to achieve the aim?

Answer 1

You can use nuget update command to do this. VS/TFS can detect the changes even thought you are running the command outside from VS. And usually, only "packages.config" file will be updated during the nuget package update.

Update: Following is a simple code to find the solution files under the given path and update the nuget packages for the solution and then check in the pending changes via TFS PowerShell CommandLets (You need to install "TFS Power Tool" to use this commandlet). You can update according to your scenario.

param([String]$dirpath)

add-pssnapin Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerShell;

Get-ChildItem -Path $dirpath -Filter *.sln -Recurse | ForEach-Object { & nuget update $_.FullName 2>1;  cd $_.Directory; get-tfspendingchange; new-tfschangeset}

Save the code as a powershell script and run it from Windows PowerShell with argument "-dirpath yoursolutionpath". It will run as following: