I was building up a library this morning, and I wanted to use Json.NET with it for deserializing. I was planning on using this library for a number of different apps, and it made me wonder, if I add a dependency such as Json.NET, will it cause problems if I am already consuming it in my app?

Nuget Versioning

For my library, version 10 or higher should be sufficient. I dug into the nuget docs and found a bunch of handy examples.

I installed 10.0.3 into my library project. In the project file itself, I changed the reference version from 10.0.3 to be just 10.0. According to the nuget docs, this will enable 10.0 to be the minimum version, and if there are higher versions, they will be accepted.

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.2</TargetFramework>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <Compile Include="a_class_file.cs" Link="a_class_file.cs" />
  </ItemGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="Newtonsoft.Json" Version="10.0" />
  </ItemGroup>
</Project>

Other Versioning

Some other helpful items:

There are lots of other helpful examples in the documentation.