PowerShell script to find all of the Nuget packages being used in the source code

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# PowerShell script to find all of the Nuget packages being used in the source code

# get all packages.config files
$files = ls -Filter packages.config -Recurse

# create an empty array in powershell
$packages = @()

# get the name of the packages in each file
foreach($file in $files)
{
	$xml = [xml]"<root></root>"
	$xml.Load($file.FullName)
	
	foreach($package in $xml.packages.package)
	{
		$packages = $packages + $package.id
	}
}

$knownpackages = ("Backbone", "Foundation","Quartz.NET","RavenDB","Mongo")

$packages = $packages + $knownpackages

# get unique package names
$packages = $packages | select -uniq | sort 

$packages