List non-project references from CLI

[sadegr]

We can list project references using dotnet list <PROJECT> reference. I have not been able to find a way to list non-project references from the CLI, e.g. listing any external DLLs that a project references.

Is this option available somewhere and I have just been unable to find it? If not, is this something that you would consider adding to the CLI? I would be willing to (attempt to) work on this and submit a pull request if you are accepting PRs from independent contributors.

Here is the output of dotnet list reference -h currently:

C:\Users\degroosa>dotnet list reference -h
Usage: dotnet list <PROJECT> reference [options]

Arguments:
  <PROJECT>   The project file to operate on. If a file is not specified, the command will search the current directory for one.

Options:
  -h, --help   Show help information.

One way to integrate this into the CLI would be to add new options -a, --all to the dotnet list reference command, which would list ALL references for a project, not just references to other projects.

For reference, here's the output from dotnet --info on my machine with Visual Studio Enterprise 2017 installed:

C:\Users\degroosa>dotnet --info
.NET Command Line Tools (2.1.201)

Product Information:
 Version:            2.1.201
 Commit SHA-1 hash:  7932dc6179

Runtime Environment:
 OS Name:     Windows
 OS Version:  10.0.16299
 OS Platform: Windows
 RID:         win10-x64
 Base Path:   C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\2.1.201\

Microsoft .NET Core Shared Framework Host

  Version  : 2.0.7
  Build    : 2d61d0b043915bc948ebf98836fefe9ba942be11

[livarcocc]

cc @KathleenDollard to comment on the experience.

This is definitely a gap and we would be willing to take a PR for this. Though, we need to come to an agreement with @KathleenDollard on what the experience should look like.

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