Home: Provide migration tool to move from packages.config project to packagereference

[rrelyea]

Some users would prefer to use VS2017's support for PackageReference, instead of the default Packages.config.

We've provided a way, in tools/options/nuget -- to choose what to use in a new project.
However, many people would like to migrate existing projects as well.

This issue is tracking our future work item to make that migration easier.

Note -- not all packages are compatible with PackageReference, so migration may not work for some projects/packages. See https://github.com/NuGet/Home/issues/4942

[gmajian]

There is a GitHubGist for "Converts packages.config into PackageReference at *.csproj project file"
https://gist.github.com/a4099181/074a6c3dd524ea0d343382137492399c

[Kassoul]

An another good tool on Github that use https://github.com/hvanbakel/CsprojToVs2017

[tomkuijsten]

@gmajian that script is very limited, eg doesn't work for packages where it's version number are different then the containing assembly version numbers.

[tomkuijsten]

@Kassoul this tool has the same problem as the script, a lot of references aren't removed.

[tomkuijsten]

@rrelyea do you want to convert to the new csproj format as well?

[jainaashish]

We've made some progress here but needs to continue with it.

[jainaashish]

We've the initial code ready but needs to work with PM to finalize the spec.

[rohit21agrawal]

@tomkuijsten no, our tool (which is work in progress) isn't currently intending to convert to the new csproj format.

[tomkuijsten]

Thanks for the clear statement!

[rohit21agrawal]

The migrator tool (on a per project basis) will be available in 15.7 Preview3

[mdell-seradex]

When will migration support C++ and/or ASP.NET Projects?