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My company is in a similar situation. We have several large projects that are generic to all clients and over a hundred of small projects that are client specific.
We moved to GitHub several years ago and didn't find anything simple to keep track of it all. The missing piece always was the aggregation or list reporting.
Using excel always seems too easy to miss something or make a mistake.
We wrote a simple app that reads all the csproj files and puts the useful info into a database. For us the key items are the .Net or .Net framework version and all the packages and their versions.
It has a simple change log of "new", "updated", "removed" with version info.
We use it primarily to track .Net versions and package versions. The cross reference is helpful for looking up where we used some esoteric package.
We learned quickly to stay aways from odd numbered .Net versions for client use.
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Exactly what I need as well.
I rolled out my own hour registration and billing app, so I'm just adding this to it.
Nice side-project for weekends 
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The place where I am working had the same problem, but across 100s of applications. These are all in Azure DevOps repos, so I wrote a tool to scan every repo and save to a DB a lot of metadata on each. Things like dotNet version, DLLs and packages included with version, etc. Very useful to generate report on EOL packages and frameworks. The company made it available on Github as open source if you are interested...
UPDATE: The app is called AzureDevOps.Technology-Framework-Monitor in Github.
modified 12-Feb-24 11:20am.
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I use the code repository API (in this case Azure DevOps) to scan all our projects for a .csproj files to get the .NET version being used. It can be modified if we have other Languages/SDKs/Frameworks in use. For example reading the package.json for the node and npm versions.
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Just saw the reply from Andreas @User-3771503 and will be taking a look the AzureDevOps.Technology-Framework-Monitor project. Seems all the meta data could be useful. Mine is much simpler, but does store some details in a LiteDB database file.
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It's does work, and it generates a lot of metadata that can be useful. I'm still extending it with additional functionality such as documenting pipelines and such...
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I have made a number of improvements, if you have questions let me know. It is also possible to run this in a Azure DevOps pipeline.
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I think one thing that might both help make that more manageable and also confer supply chain protection for you would be to implement your own internal package stores. Sounds like you'd want one for nuget and one for npm.
There will be many companies doing that this year.
If this is a new concept to you -
The idea is that your solutions only pull from your own internal package stores. You pull new stuff from the public stores and into your own stores on whatever basis you choose. You get a big bit of protection against pulling in tainted packages and having them make it into your releases.
With it split in this way, your choice of updating your local package stores can serve as the "low bar". If you then open a solution and it says there are new updates, you know that means that solution is behind your own presently set standard.
This also means that you can look at your local stores and determine at least what version of any given pkg that all of your things should be using as well as which versions might possibly have been used at some point.
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This has nothing to do with human teenagers. I woke up to a comment email from Code Project, where someone was commenting that a link wasn't active[^] on an answer I wrote thirteen years ago. Fortunately, I've been able to answer the comment with an up to date link but, given some projects just go away and die, this was pure luck on the commenters part that I could get the update for them.
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Wow, is WPF that old, really?!
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Initial release: November 21, 2006; 17 years ago
Almost old enough to legally drink, in the UK at least. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Youngest Pete's son is becoming a man! 
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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I would not even answer a comment like that because they can do their own searching. If they can't then it's about damned time they learn. Since when are we supposed to "maintain" our answers?
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I've got over 7,500 answers in QA alone. I'll get right on that maintenance thing! 
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Hi All,
Sometimes I find myself asking myself 'why did I get out of bed?'. My company is making a device that uses USB C for connecting to the base station as alternative to Bluetooth, fine. This part on the unit is separate and needs to charged only has a USB C on it. So I leave thing A connected to thing B to charge. Unit doesn't charge? Plug unit into external charger (for a tablet) unit charges. Then questions were asked finally get an Email, that USB C will not charge USB devices. It's a standard for <<expletive deleted="">> sake, if you don't follow the standards we have chaos. Standards are to be obeyed, Guidelines are to be followed!!!
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Obligatory XKCD[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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glennPattonWork3 wrote: Sometimes I find myself asking myself 'why did I get out of bed?'
I can relate to that pretty good, sadly 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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glennPattonWork3 wrote: Guidelines are to be followed!!!
They tried to pass that law. But it failed because the standards on how laws were to be passed was never followed.
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True!
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wow it's been ages since I posted here. Honestly, it's somewhat comforting to come back to a site with >40,000 active user sessions at any one time and see that it's life as usual on a website that is firmly Web2 with Web1 roots. No one here seems to be chasing "make everything serverless" and scaring people unneccesarily that their project "won't scale" when it doesn't even have 100 users yet.
I think I stopped being active on here around the time that I graduated high-school and started uni. At that time, I met a ton of new people, discovered new programming communities, and branched out into learning Linux as a daily driver (always used PHP & C# on Windows prior), learned about cool new terminology, and (in hindsight) ingested a whole pile of imposter syndrome that told me my "limited" javascript, C#, and PHP knowledge wouldn't carry into the real world.
through uni I lived through the initial web3 phase (terrible) and have seen at least 2 different ML hype cycles. I would follow the times through hackernews, twitter, and reddit and was constantly thinking that I didn't know nearly enough and that I had to learn **everything**.
Anyway, now uni is far behind me and I've held down a decent software dev job for a while, I'm starting to realize how much time I wasted chasing the "current thing" rather than methodologically improving my existing skills.
... now that the update on my life story is done: has anyone here seen HTMX? What are your thoughts? It's a rebranded intercooler.js, and it aims to dissappear into the HTML spec as a moonshot goal. I quite like it. It seems like a step "back to basics" is occurring in the crowd that I got lost in for a while, and I'm all here for it.
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A.
modified 8-Feb-24 23:08pm.
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First I have heard of HTMX. I need do some research.
Hate to sound old school, but live and learn.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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haha "live and learn" isn't old school, it's timeless
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A.
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It's "Yet Another Framework" that will get a cult following and nothing more. It solves none of the problems with HTML/CSS/Javascript.
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