dotnet consolidate

.NET core tool that verifies that all NuGet packages in a solution are consolidated.

Developers typically consider it bad practice to use different versions of the same NuGet package across different projects in the same solution.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/consume-packages/install-use-packages-visual-studio#consolidate-tab

The tool finds such discrepancies.

Installation

dotnet tool install dotnet-consolidate --global

Usage

Pass a solution file as a parameter

dotnet consolidate -s YourSolution.sln

or multiple solutions

dotnet consolidate -s YourSolution.sln AnotherSolution.sln

You can also optionally specify the a package ID if you want only a single package to be consolidated dotnet consolidate -s YourSolution.sln -p PackageId

or a list of package IDs if you want to consolidate multiple, but not all which are referenced in the solution projects

dotnet consolidate -s YourSolution.sln -p PackageID1 PackageID2

If the tool finds discrepancies between projects (only the specified ones if -p is given), it exits with non-success status code and prints these discrepancies.

Examples

dotnet consolidate -s umbraco.sln

✅ Output:

All packages are consolidated.

dotnet consolidate -s Sentry.sln

❌ Output:

Found 5 non-consolidated packages

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Newtonsoft.Json
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Sentry - 11.0.2
Sentry - 6.0.8

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Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Configuration
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Sentry.Extensions.Logging - 2.1.0
Sentry.Extensions.Logging - 3.0.0

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Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection
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Sentry.AspNetCore - 2.1.0
Sentry.Extensions.Logging.Tests - 2.1.1
Sentry.Extensions.Logging.Tests - 3.0.0

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Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Json
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Sentry.Extensions.Logging.Tests - 2.1.1
Sentry.Samples.GenericHost - 2.1.1
Sentry.Extensions.Logging.Tests - 3.0.0

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Microsoft.AspNetCore.TestHost
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Sentry.Testing - 2.1.1
Sentry.Testing - 3.1.0