Azure DevOps Extensions Dot Net List Package Check

Dot Net List Package Check is a specialized task designed to automatically scan and validate NuGet package dependencies within your Azure DevOps Build Pipeline, solving a critical challenge in maintaining secure and healthy .NET application dependencies.

In a CI (Continuous Integration) environment, this task becomes invaluable for proactively detecting included NuGet packages that might pose security, stability, or compliance issues before they reach production. Rather than manually reviewing package dependencies or discovering vulnerabilities after deployment, the Dot Net List Package Check seamlessly integrates into your pipeline to handle dependency validation systematically and consistently at both solution and project levels.

This automation significantly reduces the effort required to maintain visibility into direct and transitive package dependencies when building .NET applications, class libraries, or microservices with complex dependency graphs. The task eliminates manual package auditing, prevents vulnerable packages from entering production, ensures compliance with security policies, and maintains accurate dependency health metrics across your continuous delivery pipeline.

The practical benefits extend beyond simple scanning. Automated dependency checking enables early detection of deprecated packages that might lose support, identifies packages with known security vulnerabilities before they're exploited, highlights outdated dependencies that could benefit from updates, analyzes transitive dependencies that introduce hidden risks through nested package references, and provides configurable build blocking when critical issues are discovered to enforce quality gates.

By integrating dependency validation directly into your pipeline as a task, you avoid the complexity of manual security audits scattered across development cycles, reduce security incidents from vulnerable dependencies, create a standardized approach to supply chain security across all your .NET projects, and generate audit trails through artifact outputs that document dependency health for compliance and security reviews. All scan results are automatically saved to the pipeline workspace as artifacts, providing complete traceability and historical analysis of your dependency ecosystem.




You can find a video of how to use this Nuget Package here.

For more details on how to install and configure this extension click here.