{"id":9425,"date":"2018-10-24T01:42:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T17:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/?p=9425"},"modified":"2019-02-18T12:33:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:33:23","slug":"aa302pg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/akams-aa302pg\/","title":{"rendered":"Simplify extension development with PackageReference and the VSSDK meta package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"float: none;background-color: transparent;color: #454545;font-family: WOL_Reg,'Segoe UI',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;text-decoration: none;text-indent: 0px\">Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 made it possible to use the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/nuget\/reference\/migrate-packages-config-to-package-reference\">PackageReference<\/a><span style=\"float: none;background-color: transparent;color: #454545;font-family: WOL_Reg,'Segoe UI',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;text-decoration: none;text-indent: 0px\"> syntax to reference NuGet packages in Visual Studio Extensibility (VSIX) projects. This makes it much simpler to reason about NuGet packages and opens the door for having a complete meta package containing the entire VSSDK.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 made it possible to use the PackageReference syntax to reference NuGet packages in Visual Studio Extensibility (VSIX) projects. This makes it much simpler to reason about NuGet packages and opens the door for having a complete meta package containing the entire VSSDK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":8227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allskus"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 made it possible to use the PackageReference syntax to reference NuGet packages in Visual Studio Extensibility (VSIX) projects. This makes it much simpler to reason about NuGet packages and opens the door for having a complete meta package containing the entire VSSDK.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}