Sometimes, you will want to upgrade to a newer Microsoft Orleans version. Like today, since Orleans 1.4.2 has just been released.

Thing is, it can be a bit of a pain to update all these packages manually across different projects. It’s also quite error-prone. It has happened in the past that some of those packages ended up on one version, and others ended up on another, causing runtime mayhem.

Fortunately, there’s a simple way to get them all in sync with minimal effort. Just use the following command (taken from the Grain Persistence documentation) in the Package Manager Console:

Get-Package | where Id -like 'Microsoft.Orleans.*' | foreach { update-package $_.Id }

This will go through all the packages that start with “Microsoft.Orleans.” and update them.