Another day – another open source project from my team, this time a small nifty tool called “please”, akin something that already been mentioned in one of the ADRs (ADR003):

- We would depend on using an eng/Dependencies.props file instead of having the versions of Nuget files
repeatedly entered into the csproj files
- We would use automated tooling to achieve the maintenance of Dependencies.props file

So, in the end, not only these, but a bunch of other small functionality has been added to this swiss knife of a tool that you can just ask to do stuff, nicely 🙂

It can easily:

• Consolidate nuget packages across a solution, or only a subset of them
• Keep package versions in a central props file and maintain that file
• Move and rename projects
• Clean up in case you manually moved and renamed
• Clean up <Compile Remove="..." /> items, with or without globbing
• To find stray projects
• To remove ‘junk’ from solution directory
• To change the PATH variable (useful when working with dotnet tools)
• etc.