How can I parse `PackageReference` from many `ItemGroup`?

[6a6f6a6f]

I'm using Microsoft.Build on version 17.1.0 as a library inside a .NET 6 simple application. My main goal is to have the attributes of PackageReference (Include and Version) starting at ProjectRootElement.Open(path), but when I loop thou the ItemGroups, I'm not able to find any other attribute than Version:

project.ItemGroups
    .SelectMany(rootElement => rootElement.Items)
    .Where(itemElement => itemElement.ElementName == "PackageReference")
    .ToList()
    .ForEach(item =>
    {
        var metadata = item.Metadata.ToList();
        metadata.ForEach(d =>
        {
            Console.WriteLine($"{d.Name}: {d.Value}");
        });
    });

If these questions do not fit here, please bring me some direction.

Many thanks for considering my request.

Information about my runtime:

• .NET SDK: 6.0.201 (commit ef40e6aa06);
• OS Name: Mac OS X;
• OS Version: 12.2;
• OS Platform: Darwin;
• RID: osx.12-arm64.

[rainersigwald]

Are you wanting to do this as XML, or as MSBuild objects? The latter is preferred, but requires you to think more about the actual item type. Specifically, the Include is expressed in XML as an attribute, but becomes something more fundamental to the MSBuild type--it's not metadata because it's special and it's available in ProjectItemElement.Include. Exclude and Remove are also special.

What specific problem are you trying to solve? There may be a better way to go about it.