'Newtonsoft.Json' already has a dependency defined for 'Microsoft.CSharp'

Question

I\'m installing NewtonSoft.Json for parsing Json in .NET application. When I\'m using Visual Studio(VS) 2012, it can not be installed via NuGet. This is the error I have go

Answer 1

Installing/restoring NuGet packages which target .NET standard requires NuGet.exe version 3.4+.

From the release notes for v3.4: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/release-notes/nuget-3.4

New Features

• Support for the netstandard and netstandardapp framework monikers

This version of NuGet comes with VS2015 Update 2

NuGet 3.4 was released March 30, 2016 as part of the Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 and Visual Studio 15 Preview Release