I'm having more than one solution file for my project each pointing to a different target frameworks.
I'm able to restore the nugets for each solution using nuget restore command.
The problem arises when i try to use the update command.
Found multiple project files for package warning is shown and my packages are not updated to the latest version.
Am i doing anything wrong here?
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I cloned .NET 5 project, which should be working (unfortunately, I can't provide the project so you could reproduce the problem). I didn't change anything, I just wanted to build it, however, I am getting this error when restoring packages (although the project itself is on different disk, I found out that this is "global-packages" folder):
Could not find a part of the path 'C:\Users\me\.nuget\packages\microsoft.aspnetcore.azureappservices.siteextension\5.0.5\content\store\x64\net5.0\microsoft.extensions.configuration.environmentvariables\5.0.0\lib\netstandard2.0\Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.EnvironmentVariables.dll'
However, I don't think it is a problem with this particular dll, as my colleague cloned the same project and he is getting the same error, but with different library.
This is what I've already tried doing:
Clearing all nuget cache
Checking "automatically check for missing packages during build in visual studio"
Updating everything I could (VS, nuget..)
Running VS as Administrator
Checking package sources (yes, nuget.org is there)
Adding "add key="repositoryPath" value="$..\..\packages"" into the nuget.config file - this didn't actually create the package folder in the defined path
Clean/rebuild/... everything
I think, that the problem will be in some setting, but I have no idea, where to look :/
Use the command dotnet restore
instead of
dotnet nuget
In the project I've been using some custom NuGet sources. Apparently some of them are no longer available but I do have the newer (and only newer) versions of the packages on the other (still working) server. Is there a way to restore the packages directly to the newest versions without manually replacing all the references in the .csproj and packages.config files?
I've tried running Updade-Package -Reinstall but I only get the following error message:
Some NuGet packages are missing from the solution. The packages need to be restored in order to build the dependency graph. Restore the packages before performing any operations.
If some packages you use (and still want to use) are no longer available, I suggest you to make a backup of them.
Find the Nuget cache on your server. On Windows this is located at
%userprofile%.nuget\packages
Spot the packages (and version) you want to backup and copy the .nupkg files in their respective folders.
Then you have two choices:
Create a private Nuget feed
Create a local Nuget feed on your development machine
The 1st option has the advantage to be a single source that can be used on any machine you want (development machine, build server...etc) but you will have more set-up, especially for the authentication/authorization (because it's a private feed)
For the 2nd option: Simply create a C:/Nuget folder and put any .nupkg you want.
Then in Visual Studio go to:
Tools -> Nuget Package Manager -> Package Manager Settings -> Package Sources
Click on the green + button to add a new source, simply give it the name Local and browse to your C:/Nuget to set the source.
From now on when you want to restore your Nuget packages, Visual Studio will first look into the nuget.org feed and if it doesn't find the referenced packages, will then look into your Local feed and cache the installed package to the %userprofile%.nuget\packages of your machine.
I hope that answer to your question, I was not quite sure about what you asked and your knowledge about Nuget.
UPDATE:
I think I understand your question better now.
First of all, I think your misunderstand the Update-Package -Reinstall command. It will reinstall the packages with the SAME version as already referenced but simply reinstalling them. It's a useful command for example when you change the target framework of your project. Then you can reinstall the same versions of the packages and they will retarget this .NET Framework version.
So if a nuget restore isn't working then Update-Package -Reinstall will obviously fail too.
With Nuget, when something isn't working, you shouldn't insist but instead, find the tweak that will make it working again. I can't count how many times I went to the different caches to delete some cached packages.
I think you should try to use nuget restore and see what packages are causing issues, then uninstall these packages (this will just remove the reference from the .csproj and packages.config if they aren't installed in the project yet), then you can finally install the newest version of these packages.
We have a build step that installs and updates the nuget packages in a solution on out build server (TeamCity). Recently this has stopped doing the updates correctly. I have investigated this and found that the problem seems to be that the update command in nuget is not updating all the projects in the soltution. I can replicate this on my local machine.
When I run this command:
.nuget\NuGet.exe update Our.Company.sln -Source http:/ourTcServer:8888/guestAuth/app/nuget/v1/FeedService.svc -RepositoryPath packages -verbosity detailed
I get this a list of 10 projects it is going to update
Found 10 projects with a packages.config file. (
Company.Project1.csproj,
Company.Project2.csproj,
Company.Project3.csproj,
Company.Project4.csproj,
Company.Project4.SubProject1.csproj,
Company.Project4.SubProject2.csproj,
Company.Project1.SubProject1.csproj,
Company.Project1.SubProject2.csproj,
Company.Project2.SubProject1.csproj,
Company.Project2.SubProject1.FurtherSubProject1.csproj)
However the solution contains 13 projects and these all contain packages.config files and as far as I can tell are no different to any of the other projects. The projects are a single project and its subprojects and our projects directory structure matches the projects names (so project1.subproject1 implies that subproject1 is in a folder inside project1) in case that is important. The projects with the issue are all in a project which has the specific names like :
Company.Something.SomethingElse.Routing
Company.Something.SomethingElse.Routing.Tests
Company.Something.SomethingElse.Routing.Tests.Specifications
In case the routing part of the name causes a problem (we had a problem before using the word Resources at the end of our package name)
We have 50+ solutions that all use the same build configuration and steps and it works fine for all of them. This solution seems to be the only one which is not updating correctly.
Does anyone know why this might be the case? Or does anyone know what the code that finds packages in a solution does which might cause it not to find some packages.config files? Or anything that might help track down this issue?
Ok so the issue was that we had renamed some of our projects and so the .csproj files and had not removed to old, unused project files and nuget has a piece of code which finds the projectfile into which it it going to update the references of the updated packages. It does this by finding all the files which are .csproj (or whatever project file flavour you are using) in the same directory as the packages.config. If this does not result in exactly 1 file then it throws an exception, which is subsequently caught and ignored and nothing is logged, so you are non the wiser.
Hopefully this will help someone else in the future. Maybe me.
I found that the problem I ran into was that my projects were not in the same directory tree of the solution.
The nuget.exe update command when given solution file searches for packages.config files using the solution directory as the starting point instead of looking at each project file in the solution.
From the nuget code on GitHub:
string[] packagesConfigFiles = Directory.GetFiles(
solutionDir, "*.config", SearchOption.AllDirectories);
You can see that they are just looking for *.config files starting in the solution directory.
My projects and solutions are organized like this:
/Libraries/Shared/Shared.csproj
/Programs/NTService/NTService.csproj
/Programs/NTService.sln
In this case, if I run update on the NTService.sln file it will only update the NTService.csproj references because it is in the same directory tree as the NTService.sln file.
Since it just looks at all packages in the whole tree, I just put a solution file at the root of my repository and then run the update on that. It doesn't matter what projects are in that solution file.
I recently migrated all my Visual Studio 2013 projects to Visual Studio 2015 and followed the steps documented in this article by Nuget to make sure that automatic package restore is still working, in short
I deleted the Nuget.exe and Nuget.target files from source control and disk
I updated all project files and deleted the sections related to Nuget
I'm experiencing a problem when I'm updating Nuget packages, it is not updating the project references to point to the newest dll versions. I can see that the newest packages was installed though. This problem is also not related to specific packages.
Has anyone else experienced a problem like this?
NuGet package restore does not modify the project files. It just downloads and extracts the NuGet packages to the packages directory.
If you are trying to edit the packages.config file and then have the project's updated you would have to use the Package Manager Console and run:
Update-Package -reinstall
Which will uninstall and install the packages again and update the project's references.
We realized that some of our junior developers only installed the required Nuget packages for ONE project in the solution, they then added references to the required dll's for all other projects by browsing to the physical location of the dll's on disk. This obviously caused the problem because only ONE of the projects in the solution contained entries for Nuget packages in it's packages.config file while the remaining projects in the solution contained none.
When all packages were updated using the Update-Package command only the ONE project containing entries in it's packages.config file were updated with the correct project references.
Even though this is not a Nuget bug and rather a problem caused by inexperience, I logged an issue with Nuget to see if they can improve the software to prevent these types of problems.
So I recently had a very similar issue as well, unfortunately uninstalling and reinstalling did not work. Hopefully this helps anyone else as it was very frustrating.
Steps:
go to or launch the quick launch feature.
type package manager
select "tools->Nuget PackageManager-> Package Manager Settings"
In the options window that pops up. click "Clear All Nuget Cache(s)"
Right click solution and select Restore Nuget Packages.
Hope this helps.
I was facing an issue with NuGet package of Newtonsoft.Json as shown below:
I tried all possible solutions but none of the below mentioned ones worked:
Cleaning solution
Rebuilding solution
Clearing NuGet package cache
Finally I realized it had something to do with .NET Framework version targeted by my C# project. There was some mismatch it seems. The moment I upgraded the .NET Framework version of my project to latest, the Newtonsoft.Json package dependency and its reference came alive instantly.
Something I just noticed, and I'm not sure if this will help you or anyone else reading this, but this issue literally wracked my brain. The problem was that I was installing packages that I had created myself using NuGet Package Explorer on Windows.
It turned out that, I believe after updating NuGet Package Explorer, it was no longer putting DLLs that I included into the lib folder. Once I started manually adding the lib folder back into the package within Package Explorer, and then uploading to NuGet and reinstalling in the consuming project, that the reference would once again start to appear.
I'm not sure what caused this behavior - it could have been my own fault, but I literally just now figured this out - and consequently have to go back and re-do a whole bunch of NuGet package goodness that I've done over the past month. OUCH.
Hope this saves someone at least an ounce of pain.
None of the above worked for me.
What did work, was to edit the project file directly and delete the existing reference. When I reloaded the project, the package then showed up in references as a Nuget package.
I happened to come across the same problem. i tried all the possible solution but found the solution - just open the .proj file in an text editor and check the package Version and the HintPath in the Reference tag. Sometime there is an mismatch correct it then Visual studio will recognize. I hope everyone can save lot of time. Here is an sample to refer
<Reference Include="nunit.framework, Version=3.4.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=2638cd05610744eb">
<HintPath>..\packages\NUnit.3.4.1\lib\net45\nunit.framework.dll</HintPath>
</Reference>
Migrating to PackageReferences worked for me for the projects that allowed it. My Asp.Net project could not be migrated, so I resorted to manually adding the references to the .csproj file
I'm using Visual Studio Online with Visual Studio 2013. The build fails with
You are trying to build with OctoPack, but the NuGet targets file that OctoPack depends on is not available on this computer. This is probably because the OctoPack package has not been committed to source control, or NuGet Package Restore is not enabled
According to this link https://octopusdeploy.com/blog/octopack-3.0 I need to make some changes to get package restore working properly, but another link within the previous one says that no configuration is required if using VS2013 and Visual Studio Online Nuget.org
When I build in VS all of the packages get restored first and then the project builds. Also if I build the project and invoke Octopack via command line everything works fine. Thoughts?
If you do run NuGet Package Restore before building, this should work. However, make sure the path in your project file referring to OctoPack.targets is correct - you might have moved your packages folder or the project file and the relative paths no longer match. Easiest way to fix it would be to run Update-Package -Reinstall Octopack.
NuGet Package Restore was recently changed so you wouldn't need to include NuGet in the solution to do a package restore. However, OctoPack still needs NuGet on the path so it can find it. You can try explicitly specifying the path to NuGet by adding this parameter when calling OctoPack.
/p:OctoPackNuGetExePath=<path>\nuget.exe
You just need to check in the Octopack targets file.
\packages\OctoPack.2.0.26\targets\OctoPack.targets