Visual Studio 2012 Web API project won't run - can't find Newtonsoft.Json

Question

After running a clean solution and rebuild, my MVC 4 Web API project stops working. It\'s can\'t find Newtonsoft.Json.

I know that MS is using this as the default JS

Answer 1

Ok - found a work around myself, posting in case someone else gets caned by this MS bug. The problem is that you can't add a NuGet reference as it's already included in the packages by default. So...

1. Open up packages.config
2. Delete the Newtonsoft.Json entry.
3. Save and Build
4. Re-add Newtonsoft.Json from NuGet.
5. Build and run