Add NuGet Package update indicators in Solution Explorer

[SupporterMan]

Now we need to open the NuGet Package Manager to check whether there has any package updates for the installed packages. Is it possible to let the updates notification added into the Visual Studio Notifications windows, which is more easily be found?

[nkolev92]

Not sure if we want to make this such a prominent thing, as it might be interpreted as NuGet recommending this update.

The VS extensions updates are normally recommended changes and not expected to break the experience.
Package update can break the experience and until we have a better package compatibility story, I don't think this should be added.

//cc @rrelyea @anangaur
Thoughts here?

[clabough]

@nkolev92 Clicking on the notification should only take you to the NuGet -> Updates tab so then the user can determine whether or not to apply the update. It would be even better if this could be set per package because there are some that I never update - and I wouldn't want to be notified that those are still outdated - but others I update as soon as I can.

[nkolev92]

Clicking on the notification should only take you to the NuGet -> Updates tab so then the user can determine whether or not to apply the update

Regardless of the action, VS notifications are used for higher priority things which basically say "hey, you should do this". That's not always correct with packages.

[clabough]

@nkolev92 Yes, I agree. I would take the notification as "hey, you should check your NuGet available updates".

[jepl4052]

Some sort of notification of available updates would be really handy. Currently I'm working in a microservices architechture where each microservice provides a NuGet package with some models, interfaces etc. Whenever one microservice has its NuGet package update with a new release, it would be super handy if there was a possibility in a depending microservice to be able to setup a custom "notification/subscription" or similiar on at least some specified NuGets.

[anangaur]

@jepl4052 Since we are talking about VS here, we have the updates tab on NuGet Package Manager that has a notification notion to let users know if updates are available.

I think the idea is that developers should be aware of package updates without having to open the NuGet package manager. We have a way to show available updates on VS Mac.

Will something like this help?

[nkolev92]

Should this issue and #11547 be consolidated?

[nkolev92]

Hey all, #11838, is a design that pertains to this issue.

We may deduplicate #11547 and this issue at some point.

cc @JonDouglas