Adopt NuGet Central Package Management Feature + Update to .NET 6 dependencies

[Sean Leonard (seantleonard)]

Why make this change?

• .NET Authentication and Authorization NuGets were still referencing .NET 5 versions. This PR updates them to .NET 6.0.10 and updates all other packages except for database client SDKs because the database client SDKs introduce some breaking changes.
• Closes Fundamentals: Simplify dependency management - upgrade from out of support package versions #948

Package management is messy and tedious where we have variables to set version numbers of packages. We then need to manually update package versions to reference those variables in all .csproj files. When a package needs an update, it reverts the variable in the .csproj file to a version number requiring us to go and manually update the version number again.

Security review preparation requires us to document and track all OSS components, containers, and code. We must also demonstrate that dependencies are currently approved by Microsoft OSS for use in our project.

To address this, having a central location to easily update and manage package dependencies is desirable.

What is this change?

• Data API Builder's Visual Studio solution (.sln) now uses NuGet’s Central Package Management | Microsoft Learn to centrally manage dependencies across the solution’s projects. A single new file, Directory.Packages.props is placed at the root of the solution, setting MSBuild property ManagePackageVersionsCentrally to true, so that:
  • One file is responsible for defining the dependency versions used across projects.
  • Package version numbers should no longer be defined in .csproj files and have been removed.
  • Version numbers no longer defined as variables that are unable to be auto-updated by NuGet package manager.

Requirements

The feature is available across all NuGet integrated tooling.

• Visual Studio 2022 17.2 and later
• .NET SDK 6.0.300 and later
• .NET SDK 7.0.0-preview.4 and later
• nuget.exe 6.2.0 and later

How was this tested?

• Solution builds after cleaning.
• Running dotnet restore succeeds without errors. Version number must NOT be defined in individual .csproj files.

Sample Files

Directory.Packages.props file

  <ItemGroup>
    <PackageVersion Include="Newtonsoft.Json" Version="13.0.1" />
  </ItemGroup>

.csproj file

<ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="Newtonsoft.Json" />
</ItemGroup>

[Shyam Sundar J (severussundar)]

LGTM!