How do I delete NuGet packages that are not referenced by any project in my solution?

Question

Somehow during the upgrade to VS2012 and .NET 4.5, I\'ve managed to get NuGet confused. There are packages that appear in the package manager (and the packages folder) that I c

Answer 1

One NuGet package can reference another NuGet package. So, please be very careful about inter-package dependencies. I just uninstalled a Google map package and it subsequently uninstalled underlying packages like Newtonsoft, Entity Framework, etc.

So, manually deleting particular package from packages folder would be safer.