Unable to update Nuget Package for JQuery - visual-studio-2010

I have a project in VS 2010 and using Visual Source Safe 2005 for source control system. Whenever I try to update my NuGet Package. It shows "Installed" but, there are a lot of red color lines that appear and go as Nuget is isntalling packages.
I assume the installation is not correct for this. Can anybody help on this?

It looks like it's failing to uninstall a previous version of jquery ui because it has been modified from the original.
Try manually delete all the jquery files and remove the package node from the packages.config in the project file.
Because you want to keep your custom jquery ui, but appear to either upgrading all packages or upgrading a package with a dependency on a newer version of jquery you are getting these errors.
If you are just trying to update all packages, and don't have any that rely on jquery ui I would remove it from the packages.config. The files will still be there but no longer managed by NuGet.
If you are trying to upgrade a specific package that has a higher jquery ui dependency, then you can fake that the higher version is installed by editing the config, however the dependency is probably there for a reason and I wouldn't recommend doing this.

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Reference hell accessing .netstandard with framework VS2019 preview

I can get my .net standard 2.0 package working in a .net framework 4.7.2 dll if I do the following steps
In my standard project VS2019 61.4.4 right click the project and select pack to create the .nupkg
Then I set up a nuget package source for the package
In my framework project I install nuget package
I get the following dialog
I choose PackageReference in project file
I answer yes to accept licensing
Then I can see the following
And I can get my project working.
However on a different machine running VS2019 16.5.0 Preview 2.0, I do not get the dialog asking me to choose the package manager format.
Instead the references look like
and I can not get my project working.
[Update]
After following Lance's link to migrate packages.config to PackageReference
The project looks like
I was able to remove the unwanted packages by right clicking references and choosing Remove Unused References
The program worked!
Go Tools=>Nuget Package Manager =>General => Package Management You can control the behavior by Allow format selection on first package install. Enable the checkbox and restart VS, this change will take effect.
And note the dialog only appears when we install first package in current project. So if you create a new project and install package, it will appear. And since you once installed packages in that project, the dialog won't appear in WindowsFormApp2 any more.
(But you can easily migrate packages.config to PackageReference, see this).

NuGet Automatic Restore And Installing NuGets

I recently successfully switched all of our projects over to automatic NuGet restore. To do this I followed this guide. Everything worked great, I was able to delete my /packages folder and restore to my heart's content.
One of the steps in that guide says to edit your .csproj file and remove the EnsureNuGetPackageBuildImports related element.
The problem I am having now is that, after going in and downgrading one of my projects libraries, NuGet seems to have automatically added the EnsureNuGetPackageBuildImports related element back into my .csproj file.
Is there some other setting I should be changing to prevent NuGet from doing this? I would rather not have to edit my .csproj file every time I make a NuGet related change.
Is there some other setting I should be changing to prevent NuGet from doing this?
I`m afraid the answer is not if you going in and downgrading one of your projects libraries.
The target "EnsureNuGetPackageBuildImports" is used to ensures that the imported .props or .targets files are indeed imported in the old way "Enable Package Restore". NuGet has supported NuGet MSBuild support since NuGet 2.5.
Since Nuget 2.7+, Microsoft has dropped support for the 'Enable NuGet Package Restore' in VS2015 and you need to do some manual changes to either migrate old solutions or add the feature to new solutions. Nuget Automatic Package Restore has changed in Nuget 2.7+. Unfortunately, it looks like a non-backward compatible change. We have some developers on 2.7 and before who will now need to upgrade to 2.7+. In this case, NuGet will automatically added the EnsureNuGetPackageBuildImports related element back into your .csproj file when you going in and downgrading one of your projects libraries.
To resolve this, we advice that do not mix 'old' and new methods for automatic package restoration(Remove that files when you use automatic package restoration).
Besides, if going in and downgrading one of your projects libraries is unavoidable, there is a PS script can help you remove it more convenient:
DisableNuGetPackageRestore.ps1

Using Nuget on VS2015 RC Tools for Apache Cordova

Bit of a newbie to VS2015RC with Cordova but I have a query regarding how to use Nuget to add dependencies like say Jquery, Angular etc.
If you add the dependencies or packages using Nuget then they are added to the root of the Project (Not in the www folder). Of course you can just move the files but this plays havoc with some of the Source Control we are using and also you have to remember to move it back again to the root if you want to "Upgrade" the dependency or package with Nuget again.
So....
Is there a way of getting Nuget to install the files in the correct
sub-folder? or...
Is there another way to add the dependencies /
packages (Npm etc?) and is there a tutorial around for that?
Thanks in advance for the help.
The way I understood it, the directory structure was changed in the RC. I chalked the wrong directory up to the nuget configs not being updated yet. I expect the gold release to have that fixed.

NuGet Package Manager not seeing one package as already updated

I want to know how I can debug a NuGet package not properly showing as updated. In my specific case the package for jQuery.Validation is (the only one left) in the "Update" list, but hitting the update button does nothing. Here's the dialog for Managing NuGet Packages for my solution:
Hitting the "Update" button will give an additional popup:
As you can see everything seems slightly grayed out (what does that mean?). Hitting "Ok" just brings me back to the other dialog.
The main problem is that I don't know how to debug this sort of problem. I've tried doing the following:
Opening the Package Manager Console to see if it logs any trouble. No dice.
Checking the jquery.validate.min.js file, which mentions version 1.13.1, which is in fact the one mentioned in the dialog as the newest version.
Checking the packages.config file, which also mentions my solution includes version 1.13.1.
Restarting Visual Studio. No dice.
Remove the package. Re-add the package. No dice (not even after restarting Visual Studio again).
Is this just a bug in the Package Manager or the package? How can I further debug the root cause of this problem?
I'm using Visual Studio 2012, have updated the product as well as all extensions (including the NuGet package manager). The solution was originally based on an MVC 2 template, and has been updated for each major MVC release (currently up to MVC 5). Only this particular package is giving trouble, I've succesfully updated 10+ other packages just before this one.
This can happen if you have an old NuGet package left in the packages directory.
When managing packages for the solution the NuGet dialog will show updates for all packages that are in the packages directory even if they are not installed into any projects. If you manage the packages for the project on its own the NuGet dialog would not show any package updates as being available.
So the workaround is to remove the unwanted NuGet package from the packages directory.

Updating solution level nuget packages in visual studio

I'm trying to figure out a) if I'm going about this in the right way and b) how to update a solution level nuget package.
The core problem is that when a package is installed at the solution level (rather than in any particular project) and you try to update it, it doesn't remove the old reference. It just adds a new package reference, and imports both version. Which typically means (what with how powershell modules work) that the earlier powershell modules override the newer ones.
So what I have to do is uninstall the package and re-install it, which grabs the newer version. Seems inefficient.
Also, I can't seem to install or uninstall a solution level package from console. I have to do it with the Manage Nuget Packages utility, which I hate to use.
Here is some background on what I'm doing, if it helps:
I've set up a system at our company of using solution level nuget packages to add custom powershell script modules to the solution, as well as some more generalized scripted solutions I've written (like deleting TFS work items or changing a project name on the file system as well as within code).
So one project might have the DataServiceUtilities package and another would have the FrontEndUtilities package.
So, how can I update these packages without it adding two references? And can solution level operations be done in the Package Manager Console, which always defaults to targeting a project?
It appears that some of this comes from bugs in the Package Manager GUI tools, and Nuget in general
The Package Manager GUI tool doesn't handle updates properly for solution level packages. But if you run Update-Package from the package manager console it will correctly uninstall/re-install the solution-level package.
As for installing from command line, if a package has only a tools folder and no dependencies you can run install from command line and it sill install in the solution and ignore the default project.
However, as of now (Nuget 2.8) Nuget has a bug in it that causes it to treat solution-level packages with dependencies on other solution-level packages as project-level packages. It's apparently been in for about a year, and they claim it will be fixed in VS 2015. You can see the bug here: https://nuget.codeplex.com/workitem/3642
What this means is you cannot currently create a solution-level package with ANY dependencies. Please note that this is legal according to the documentation. Hopefully it will be fixed next year.
*Update
Just a quick update. It appears that in VS 2015 they have deprecated (or, more accurately, removed) solution level/tools only packages. After some out outcry they also decided to re-implement them in a future version, but it may be awhile before they do so.
Progress on re-implementing the feature can be found here: https://github.com/NuGet/Home/issues/1521
Discussion on how to work around the missing feature can be found here: https://github.com/NuGet/Home/issues/522

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