Central Package Management - Version Pinning

Question

So one might have heard about FluentAssertions, to change its licence to commercial https://fluentassertions.com/releases/.

Here is the question: I am using Central Package Management in my SDK style project(s), want do PIN the FluentAssertions version to 7.1.0.

Is there a way to achieve this, if yes how? Just found info about transitive, but not root level packages.

For the sake of completeness, here is some code (snippets):

Directory.Build.props:

<Project>
  <PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>net9.0</TargetFramework>
    <ImplicitUsings>enable</ImplicitUsings>
    <Nullable>enable</Nullable>
    <ManagePackageVersionsCentrally>true</ManagePackageVersionsCentrally>
    <IsTestProject Condition="$(MSBuildProjectName.EndsWith(.Tests))">true</IsTestProject>
  </PropertyGroup>
</Project>

Directory.Packages.props

<Project>
  <ItemGroup Condition="$(IsTestProject) == 'true'">
    <PackageVersion Include="FluentAssertions" Version="7.1.0" />
  </ItemGroup>
</Project>

Any test projects .csproj

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
    <PackageReference Include="FluentAssertions" />
</Project>

Thanks for all answers <3

Edit: NuGet package manager should not notify about the "unwanted new" package version.

Answer 1

You can use nuget package versioning rules to pin your package version to version 7.

The best way to to this is to use a version range that includes the current version 7.1.0 (with the open square bracket [) but excludes version 8 and above (with the close braces )).

This way if there are updates released for version 7 e.g. version 7.2.0 they will show as available upgrades.

<PackageVersion Include="FluentAssertions" Version="[7.1.0,8)" />

Note that you will have to upgrade by manually editing the version number as nuget package manager tends to overwrite the range with a specific version if you use the UI.