This project contains an example for how to use Aliases metadata with PackageReference.
In the project file, specify
<ItemGroup>
<PackageReference Include="NuGet.Versioning" Version="5.8.0" Aliases="ExampleAlias" />
</ItemGroup>and in the code use it as following:
extern alias ExampleAlias;
namespace PackageReferenceAliasesExample
{
...
{
...
var version = ExampleAlias.NuGet.Versioning.NuGetVersion.Parse("5.0.0");
Console.WriteLine($"Version : {version}");
...
}
...
}