Nuget Package restore with git submodule

Question

i have a project where i include 2 submodules from git. Both projects have \"nuget package restore\" enabled, the parent project too. The package folder in the two included

Answer 1

If you're using VS2015 Update 1 or later, you can convert your project to use project.json to fix this.

In short:

• Run Uninstall-Package -Force -RemoveDependencies for all your packages. You may wanna copy-paste your packages.config in notepad before you do this.
• Delete packages.config from the project, save the project, unload
• Edit the project file and remove:
  • Any referenced .props files at the top related to nuget
  • Any elements that reference a package
  • The .targets files at the bottom that reference nuget - usually starts with:
  • If your packages contain Roslyn analyzers, make sure to remove them too.
• Save the file and relod the project

Add project.json with:

{
  "dependencies": {
  },
  "frameworks": {
    ".NETFramework,Version=v4.6.1": {}
  },
  "runtimes": {
    "win": {}
  }
}

Finally add your packages again, either by hand under dependencies or using Install-Package or with the nuget UI in VS.

I've also had to remove any Microsoft.Bcl.* packages from my projects because they explicitly look for a packages.config file.

EDIT: this (removing the Microsoft.Bcl.* packages will give you a compile-time error, even though the project will build fine, because the .targets file Microsoft.Bcl.Build adds will still look for packages.config.

To suppress this, edit your project file and add:

true

This needs to go to the first that doesn't have a Condition attribute set. If there isn't one, just add another at the top, like:

    true