parsing package.config for nuget package explorer

Packages XML to C# paste

/// <remarks/>
    [System.SerializableAttribute()]
    [System.ComponentModel.DesignerCategoryAttribute("code")]
    [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlTypeAttribute(AnonymousType = true)]
    [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlRootAttribute(Namespace = "", IsNullable = false)]
    public partial class packages
    {

        private packagesPackage[] packageField;

        /// <remarks/>
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute("package")]
        public packagesPackage[] package
        {
            get
            {
                return this.packageField;
            }
            set
            {
                this.packageField = value;
            }
        }
    }

    /// <remarks/>
    [System.SerializableAttribute()]
    [System.ComponentModel.DesignerCategoryAttribute("code")]
    [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlTypeAttribute(AnonymousType = true)]
    public partial class packagesPackage
    {

        private string idField;

        private string versionField;

        private string targetFrameworkField;

        private bool developmentDependencyField;

        private bool developmentDependencyFieldSpecified;

        /// <remarks/>
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlAttributeAttribute()]
        public string id
        {
            get
            {
                return this.idField;
            }
            set
            {
                this.idField = value;
            }
        }

        /// <remarks/>
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlAttributeAttribute()]
        public string version
        {
            get
            {
                return this.versionField;
            }
            set
            {
                this.versionField = value;
            }
        }

        /// <remarks/>
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlAttributeAttribute()]
        public string targetFramework
        {
            get
            {
                return this.targetFrameworkField;
            }
            set
            {
                this.targetFrameworkField = value;
            }
        }

        /// <remarks/>
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlAttributeAttribute()]
        public bool developmentDependency
        {
            get
            {
                return this.developmentDependencyField;
            }
            set
            {
                this.developmentDependencyField = value;
            }
        }

        /// <remarks/>
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlIgnoreAttribute()]
        public bool developmentDependencySpecified
        {
            get
            {
                return this.developmentDependencyFieldSpecified;
            }
            set
            {
                this.developmentDependencyFieldSpecified = value;
            }
        }
    }

stuffing dependency

var packageMetadataDependencySets = viewModel.PackageMetadata.DependencySets;

var packages = new XmlSerializer(typeof(packages)).Deserialize(new XmlTextReader(PathToConfig)) as packages;

//tries to match a target framework with an existing group
var packageDependencySet = packageMetadataDependencySets.First(x => packages.package.First()
							   .targetFramework.Contains($"{x.TargetFramework.FullName.Replace($"{x.TargetFramework.Identifier},Version=v", "net").Replace(".", "")}"))
							   ?? packageMetadataDependencySets.First();

var parsedPackages = packages.package.Select(package => new PackageDependency(package.id, new VersionSpec(SemanticVersion.Parse(package.version)), null)).ToList();
packageMetadataDependencySets.Add(new PackageDependencySet(packageDependencySet.TargetFramework, parsedPackages));
_dependencySets = packageMetadataDependencySets;