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There's definitely no "best way", it just depends on the product you're building. With that being said, I prefer programmatic layouts vs storyboard. If I HAVE to use storyboard with a team, it requires careful planning. Generally, we'll keep a one-to-many relationship between devs to storyboards. I may have ownership over 5 storyboard screens but ONLY I have ownership over them. That way, merge conflicts are heavily minimized.

Have you tried using the Visual Studio Package Manager Console? According to this article, the list of commands for updating all packages is not very long. It's just "Update-Package": https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/consume-packages/install-use-packages-powershell#update-a-package

I think YES, as Eclipse is widely used by Developers and used for development in various programming languages