If I have one project in VS2010 for which I have added a number of packages using nuget, can I then create another project in that solution and somehow obtain the exact same package configuration?
This question is a bit old, but I decided to share how I am doing this to anyone looking for the same:
Drag & drop the packages.config from the project where the packages are already installed to the new project.
Open the Package Manager Console
Type:
Update-Package -Reinstall -ProjectName [name of your target project]
You can right click on solution node and select "Manage packages for solution" then you will see a list of installed packages in the solution ,by selecting each package and clicking "Manage" button you can say which package belongs to which project.
Using Visual Studio - open both projects ( .csproj files ). Copy the <ItemGroup> containing the <PackageReference /> definitions. Save the target project.
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I am finding it a common issue where when I download a .NET repo from Github, the solution has missing references. See an example below. When using Nuget Package Manager, it says the packages are installed already. The packages folder is missing.
I tried using 'Update-Package -reinstall' and got a bunch of lines with 'No package updates are available from the current package source for project 'project name'.... That's probably due to the missing package files.
I can fix each reference manually but it's a time consuming process. Is there a way to force fix all these references in all the projects in one swoop using a command or a tool that 'cleverly' knows what to do? I am using Visual Studio 2019 16.3 preview 1
In VS2019, those .net core projects or .net standard projects use PackageReference instead of packages.config format to manage nuget packages. And in this way, the content in xx.csproj looks similar to this:
<ItemGroup>
<PackageReference Include="FluentValidation" Version="8.1.3" />
<PackageReference Include="MediatR" Version="6.0.0" />
<PackageReference Include="AutoMapper" Version="8.0.0" />
<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore" Version="2.2.3" />
<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions" Version="2.2.0" />
</ItemGroup>
Every time you download a project which uses packageReference format, you only get the xx.csproj and related source files but without nuget packages. So when you open and load the solution or project in VS IDE, it will display the nuget packages name in solution explorer but with yellow warning triangle since now VS can't find those packages locally.
Is there a way to force fix all these references in all the projects
in one swoop using a command or a tool that 'cleverly' knows what to
do?
Just like what zivkan said in his answer, NuGet is normally configured to restore packages automatically if you've enabled those two options. Every time when we load the soultion in IDE, it will automatically restore the packages for us. Not sure the reason why it seems not to work in your machine, but you can check and try:
1.Go Nuget Package Manager=>Package Sources, make sure you've set https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json as one the Available Package sources.
2.Right-click the solution in Solution Explorer, choose the Restore Nuget Packages to restore packages for whole solution.
3.Or you can Unload and reload the project to check if it helps.
4.By default, the packages are stored at C:\Users\xxx\.nuget\packages folder, you can check if those folders exists there.
(I delate all packages in that folder, so it's clear when I open the git solution in VS, the nuget is installing those necessary packages automatically, I'm not sure if there's any possibility that cause too many packages are being installed,so it will take some time? I check and find, to restore necessary packages for NorthWind solution, it require packages for over 370 MB)
I tried using 'Update-Package -reinstall' and got a bunch of lines
with 'No package updates are available from the current package source
for project 'project name'.... That's probably due to the missing
package files.
And for the reason why Update-Package -reinstall not work well in the project, maybe it's a similar issue like nuget issue #4103, for the packagereference in xx.csproj, several commands for now are not supported.
And after my check in my machine, the command obviously do not work for a PackageReference-format .net standard project. When I've installed related packages successfully, I run this command but only get No package updates are available from the current package source for project xxx, then I delete the installed packages, clean the cache and run the command again, I still get same message!
So I think this command can't recognize PackageRefernece format in .csproj, no matter whether I install related packages or not, it will always throw message No package updates are available ...
NuGet is normally configured to restore packages automatically. See the options page. The second Package Restore option, "Automatically check for missing packages during build in Visual Studio" is enabled by default on clean installs.
Here's a little video I recorded of what happens on my machine when I open the solution. Keep an eye out on the status bar at the bottom left of the window.
If your installation of Visual Studio does not behave in the same way with the automatic restore option enabled, then there is some other issue on your machine, but we don't have enough information from your question, as of the time I wrote this.
When I go on the "Manage Nuget packages for solution" in VS2015, I've a list of packages. Some of them are not used anymore, by any project(I don't see any checkbox on the right).
If I remove the corresponding nuget folder from the solution, it indicates me that I've some missing Nuget package on the next start.
On the right, the button to uninstall is grayed out.
How do I do to remove those package from the solution?
EDIT
Here is a screenshot showing my nuget pane:
One or more projects in your solution has that Nuget package installed. Right click on the project (not solution) and click "Manage Nuget Packages" from there you can uninstall the package. Note I click on the project and not solution:
First, open your Package Manager Console. Then select your project from the dropdown list. And run the following commands for uninstalling nuget packages.
Get-Package
for getting all the package you have installed.
and then
Uninstall-Package YourPackageName
I'm training 5 people on using Visual Studio. They've mapped their drives and have "downloaded" the solution from TFS which contains 10 projects. All located at the same depth in TFS folder structure. When the new folks download the solution there's one project that doesn't get the NUGET references even though the Package folder (created by NUGET) is at the same depth of the other 10 projects when viewed in TFS.
We know how to add these manually but is there a way to automatically have VS do it? Why would only one project lose it's reference with the Package Folder right there?
It seems you are still using MSBuild-Integrated package restore approach. If NuGet recognizes that the MSBuild-Integrated package restore approach is enabled for the solution, Automatic Package Restore is skipped.
You need to migrating MSBuild-Integrated solutions to use Automatic Package Restore, then the packages will be restored automatically.
In addition, you need to update you NuGet manager to the latest version in VS Tools--Extensions and Updates. And make sure Visual Studio is configured to 'Allow NuGet to download missing packages' and 'Automatically check for missing packages during build in Visual Studio' in VS Tools--Options--NuGet Package Mnager--General.
To Fix:
Unload all projects first, then right click and select edit project.
Find this line:
<Import Project="$(SolutionDir)\.nuget\nuget.targets" />
Comment it out.
Reload all the projects and compile.
This applies to Nuget api version 2.
Note you may configure all projects for Nuget at the solution level.
The package manager for the solution presents a set of check boxes for every project along with the buttons (Install or Uninstall).
I have my project set to Allow NuGet to download missing packages as well as Automatically check for missing packages during build in Visual Studio. In my solution folder, there is a packages folder and it contains everything that I need for my project. However the references to them in the project are still broken.
I have tried removing the references and adding them with NuGet, but NuGet says the item is already in the project (it is in the packages folder) even though the reference is there and the project can't build. The only way that I can seem to get around it is to manually go into each of the packages in the packages folder and select every .dll.
Is there a better way to do this?
Open package manager console and type:
Update-Package -Reinstall
This should refresh all your references based on each project's packages.config file.
So I downloaded Twitterizer from http://www.twitterizer.net/downloads/
I try to open it in Visual Studio and get all these nuget errors:
The imported project "C:\Twitterizer\.nuget\nuget.targets" was not found.
Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct, and that the file
exists on disk.
What is going on. How do I deal with this?
Install Nuget.
Right click on the solution and select "Enable NuGet
Package Restore". In Visual Studio 2013 and later, select "Restore NuGet Packages" instead.
Click Ok on the warning.
Close and re-open the solution.
Should now be hunky-dory.
An alternative is to edit the .csproj file with a texteditor and remove or comment out the segment.
This error normally happens when you are trying to open a .csproj directly, not through the solution file, and the .csproj imports the Nuget targets like this:
<Import Project="$(SolutionDir)\.nuget\NuGet.targets" />
In order to solve it, you can either open the .sln and not the .csproj directly...or remove the import line above.
Notice that the mentioned error will only happen when you are using solution wise package restore, which isn't even recommended anymore.
Just ran into the same problem, but in my case the issue was a space in the folder name:
Nuget was telling me it couldn't find "C:\git\My Path" but I was able to navigate to "C:\git\My%20Path". Removing the space in the foldername "fixed" the issue.
I know I'm late to the party but here is a really good tutorial on how to fix this issue. I used this to fix my project.
Close down Visual Studio If the solution you are trying to migrate is
open in Visual Studio, then changes may be lost. Visual Studio may
overwrite/ignore your changes in some cases and the NuGet extension
will also try to re-enable Package Restore when it sees some projects
in the solution are missing it.
If you are using TFS Remove the NuGet.exe and NuGet.targets files from
the solution's .nuget folder. Make sure the files themselves are also
removed from the solution workspace. Retain the NuGet.Config file to
continue to bypass adding packages to source control. Edit each
project file (e.g., .csproj, .vbproj) in the solution and remove any
references to the NuGet.targets file. Open the project file(s) in the
editor of your choice and remove the following settings:
true ... ...
<PropertyGroup>
<ErrorText>This project references NuGet package(s) that are missing on this computer. Enable NuGet Package Restore to download
them. For more information, see
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=322105. The missing file is
{0}.
If you are not
using TFS Remove the .nuget folder from your solution. Make sure the
folder itself is also removed from the solution workspace. Edit each
project file (e.g., .csproj, .vbproj) in the solution and remove any
references to the NuGet.targets file. Open the project file(s) in the
editor of your choice and remove the following settings:
true ... ...
<PropertyGroup>
<ErrorText>This project references NuGet package(s) that are missing on this computer. Enable NuGet Package Restore to download
them. For more information, see
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=322105. The missing file is
{0}.
Migration Script
Many users have requested a migration tool to disable the
MSBuild-based package restore and convert to Automatic Package
Restore. The NuGet team has decided not to provide a supported tool
for this because of the high probability of edge cases that would be
unhandled. However, Owen Johnson has authored a PowerShell script that
can work in many cases. It's available on GitHub and can be used at
your own risk. In other words, be sure to commit to source control
before running it, just in case it doesn't work in your scenario.
Nuget.target Fix
When i get the nuget.targets not found error i use the package manager to uninstall-package one of the packages in the project and then reinstall it using install-package. It seems like it regenerates the nugets.target file then.
Easiest solution when you get this error in order to restore the missing NuGet.targets in Visual Studio Solution Explorer is to:
Right click on the solution file
From the context menu click "Enable Nuget Package Restore..." option
this will download the missing files in the ".nuget" folder :)
The above assumes you already have Nuget installed - if not follow the accepted answer above!
UPDATE:
Please note for Visual Studio versions beyond 2013 the option is called "Restore NuGet Packages"