Dependency graph of Visual Studio projects

Question

I\'m currently migrating a big solution (~70 projects) from VS 2005 + .NET 2.0 to VS 2008 + .NET 3.5. Currently I have VS 2008 + .NET 2.0.

The problem is that I need

Answer 1

This extended version of the PS Script from Danny Tuppeny shows both Project and External references:

Function Get-ProjectReferences($rootPath)
{
  $projectFiles = Get-ChildItem $rootPath -Filter *.csproj -Recurse
  $ns = @{ defaultNamespace = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" }

  $projectFiles | ForEach-Object {
    $projectFile = $_ | Select-Object -ExpandProperty FullName
    $projectName = $_ | Select-Object -ExpandProperty BaseName
    $projectXml = [xml](Get-Content $projectFile)

    $projectReferences = $projectXml | Select-Xml '//defaultNamespace:ProjectReference/defaultNamespace:Name' -Namespace $ns | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Node | Select-Object -ExpandProperty "#text"
    $projectReferences | ForEach-Object {
        "PR:[" + $projectName + "]:[" + $_ + "]"
    }
  }

  $projectFiles | ForEach-Object {
    $projectFile = $_ | Select-Object -ExpandProperty FullName
    $projectName = $_ | Select-Object -ExpandProperty BaseName
    $projectXml = [xml](Get-Content $projectFile)

    $externalReferences = $projectXml | Select-Xml '//defaultNamespace:Reference/@Include' -Namespace $ns
    $externalReferences | ForEach-Object {
        "ER:[" + $projectName + "]:[" + $_ + "]"
    }

  }

}

Get-ProjectReferences "C:\projects" | Out-File "C:\temp\References.txt"

It will give a colon-separated file that can be opened and analysed in Excel.