[NEW-FEATURE] Support central package management in ixc (#224)

* Create draft PR for #223

* adds support for Central Package Management

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Co-authored-by: PTKu <PTKu@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Peter <61538034+PTKu@users.noreply.github.com>

src/AXSharp.compiler/src/AXSharp.Compiler/AXSharpProject.cs

@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ private IEnumerable<ISyntaxTree> GetReferences()
 
     private void CompileProjectReferences(IEnumerable<IReference> referencedDependencies)
     {
-        foreach (var ixProjectReference in AxProject.IxReferences)
+        foreach (var ixProjectReference in AxProject.AXSharpReferences)
         {
             string apaxFolder = ixProjectReference.AxProjectFolder == null
                 ? referencedDependencies

src/AXSharp.compiler/src/AXSharp.Compiler/AxProject.cs

@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ public AxProject(string axProjectFolder, string[] sourceFiles)
     /// <summary>
     /// Gets paths of this project's references to other ix projects.
     /// </summary>
-    public IEnumerable<AXSharpConfig> IxReferences
+    public IEnumerable<AXSharpConfig> AXSharpReferences
     {
         get
         {
@@ -99,6 +99,12 @@ public IEnumerable<AXSharpConfig> IxReferences
                 .Select(p => Directory.EnumerateFiles(p.LinkTarget ?? p.FullName, AXSharpConfig.CONFIG_FILE_NAME, SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly))
                 .SelectMany(p => p).Select(c => AXSharpConfig.RetrieveIxConfig(c));
 
+            if (retVal.Count() == 0)
+            {
+                Log.Logger.Information("Retrieving possible project references from .apax packages did not produce results. " +
+                                       "If you have referenced AX# projects, the packages must be previously installed by 'apax install'");
+            }
+
             return retVal;
         }
     }

src/AXSharp.compiler/src/AXSharp.Cs.Compiler/PackageReference.cs

@@ -20,6 +20,40 @@ public class PackageReference : IPackageReference
     private static readonly string NugetDir =
         SettingsUtility.GetGlobalPackagesFolder(Settings.LoadDefaultSettings(null));
 
+    private static IEnumerable<(string? include, string? version)> GetVersionFromCentralPackageManagement(string csprojFile)
+    {
+        var scFile = new FileInfo(csprojFile);
+        string? currentDirectory = scFile.DirectoryName;
+        string targetFile = null;
+
+        // Search for the file in the directory tree upstream
+        while (currentDirectory != null)
+        {
+            var potentialFile = Path.Combine(currentDirectory, "Directory.Packages.props");
+            if (File.Exists(potentialFile))
+            {
+                targetFile = potentialFile;
+                break;
+            }
+
+            currentDirectory = Directory.GetParent(currentDirectory)?.FullName;
+        }
+
+        if (targetFile == null)
+        {
+            return new List<(string?, string?)>();
+        }
+
+        XDocument xdoc = XDocument.Load(targetFile);
+        var packageElements = xdoc.Descendants().Where(e => e.Name == "PackageVersion" || e.Name == "GlobalPackageReference");
+
+        return packageElements.Select(pv => 
+            (
+                pv.Attribute("Include")?.Value,
+                pv.Attribute("Version")?.Value
+            ));
+    }
+
     /// <summary>
     ///     Creates new instance of <see cref="PackageReference" />
     /// </summary>
@@ -32,16 +66,37 @@ public static PackageReference CreateFromReferenceNode(XElement packageReference
         try
         {
             include = (packageReferenceNode.Attribute(XName.Get(nameof(Include)))?.Value ?? packageReferenceNode.Attribute(XName.Get("Update"))?.Value)!;
-            var version = packageReferenceNode.Attribute(XName.Get(nameof(Version)))!.Value;
+            var version = packageReferenceNode.Attribute(XName.Get(nameof(Version)))?.Value ??
+                          packageReferenceNode.Attribute(XName.Get("VersionOverride"))?.Value;
+
+            version = version ??
+                      GetVersionFromCentralPackageManagement(projectFile).FirstOrDefault(p => p.include == include).version;
+
+
+
+            if (include == null)
+            {
+                throw new FailedToRetrievePackageReferenceException(
+                    $"We were unable to determine package id of one of the packages referenced in project {projectFile}\n" +
+                    $"The package id must be in 'Include' or 'Update' attribute of 'PackageReference' element." +
+                    $"Make sure your csproj file is valid", null);
+            }
+
+            if (version == null)
+            {
+                throw new FailedToRetrievePackageReferenceException(
+                    $"We were unable to determine version of the package '{include}' referenced in project {projectFile}\n" +
+                    $"Make sure you have the version defined either in the project file or in central package management file 'Directory.Packages.props'\n" +
+                    $"upstream in your projects' directory structure.", null);
+            }
+
             var referencePath = PackageReferenceNugetPath(include, version);
 
             return new PackageReference(referencePath, include, version);
         }
         catch (Exception ex)
         {
-            throw new FailedToRetrievePackageReferenceException(
-                $"Could not parse 'Name' or 'Version' of the package '{include}' reference in project {projectFile}",
-                ex);
+            throw new FailedToRetrievePackageReferenceException($"Failed to retrieve package reference {ex.Message}", ex);
         }
     }
 

src/AXSharp.compiler/src/ixc/Properties/launchSettings.json

@@ -6,11 +6,11 @@
     },
     "integration_plc": {
       "commandName": "Project",
-      "workingDirectory": "c:\\W\\Develop\\gh\\ix-ax\\axsharp\\src\\sanbox\\integration\\ix-integration-plc\\"
+      "workingDirectory": "c:\\W\\Develop\\gh\\ix-ax\\axopen\\src\\integrations\\ctrl\\"
     },
     "ixc-simple-template": {
       "commandName": "Project",
-      "workingDirectory": "C:\\W\\Develop\\gh\\ix-ax\\ix.framework\\src\\templates.simple\\ctrl\\"
+      "workingDirectory": "C:\\W\\Develop\\gh\\ix-ax\\axopen\\src\\templates.simple\\ctrl\\"
     },
     "ixc-template-ref": {
       "commandName": "Project",