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Best way to force an update of a transitive nuget package dependency?

Consider a .NET Core application (A), which references a third-party nuget package (B) using the PackageReference model. Package B has it's own dependency on another package (C): A -> B -> C Package B declares a dependency on C with a version…
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nuget package reference blue icon in visual studio 2017

For some reason in my console app, couple of the reference that I installed thru nuget shows the blue nuget icon. I can build my project locally, but not after I deploy my project to cloud. The error msg is complaining about not able to find these 2…
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NuGet package shows no dependencies?

I try to make a NuGet package from a .NET 4.7.2 class library (VS2017), but the resulting NuGet package surprisingly shows no dependencies (which is an error). My setup is like this: My class library is .NET Framework 4.7.2 My class library uses…
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ClickOnce Application with PackageReferences auto to Prerequisites

How can I get PackageReference packages to be included with the ClickOnce automatically? I am trying to convert a ClickOnce application from packages.config to use PackageReferences as I have a good 30+ nuget packages (mostly dependencies) and it it…
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Migration from packages.config to PackageReferences causes Could not load file or assembly "..." or one of its dependencies. Access is denied

After upgrading our projects to PackageReferences I am facing the following issue on the build server (on-premise AzureDevOps agents) "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Microsoft.Xaml.targets(193,5): Error XC1000: XC1020: Build error…
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Nuget: Migrating multiple large Solutions to PackageReference

Background I'm working on a big project with multiple large solutions. All in all we have over 400 C#-Projects. In the past we used Nuget with the packages.config file for our dependencies. Now we want to migrate all of the projects to the new…
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How to include XML Documentation from Nuget Package in csproj build output

I have a nuget package that includes an XML documentation file. packages/MyPackage.1.0.0/lib/net472/MyPackage.xml However when I build my project, I want to include this xml file in the output. So when I: dotnet MyProj.csproj -c Release I want to…
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NuGet Package references copies dll local

I have some requirement to set Copy Local to false for the NuGet dll. Before that, I used the package.config format and everything worked fine. After migration to Package Reference format, I cannot find a way how to do that. Could someone help me?
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Disable transitive PackageReference dependency for a specific MsBuild project

I am migrating an old style MsBuild csproj project to using PackageReference format and have run into a problem with transitive dependencies. Consider the following Project A reference NuGet package B and C, each containing one single assembly using…
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Failed to use use "MSBuild.ILMerge.Task" with PackageReference

When using MSBuild.ILMerge.Task referenced via packagereference the following error came up: error MSB4018: The "MSBuild.ILMerge.Task" task failed unexpectedly. error MSB4018: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Cannot find ILMerge executable. error…
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Reference DLLs from subfolder of a NuGet package with PackageReference

We are upgrading a project from packages.config to the PackageReference structure. One of the packages referenced has DLLs in subfolders like: lib\net45\some.dll lib\net45\xxx\other.dll When referencing this package from a project using…
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VS2017 nuget keeps searching for packages in wrong location

So I migrated from nuget packages.config to PackageReference and found out there were some compatibility issues. I reverted the project to its working state (before the PackageReference) and now my project is not compiling. I get the following…
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PackageReference Versioning Wildcard csproj

I have the following in my NetStandard Project When I change it to use the wildcard (instead of 1.0.1) I get an exclamation mark on the dependencies toggle, then…
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Constrain PackageReference upgrade version when update-package run

Under .NET's older packages.config system for NuGet, I could constrain the possible versions of a package that are considered when packages are updated by using the allowedVersions attribute on the Package element
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Where is Visual Studio 2022 storing the nupkg-files

I use Visual Studio 2022. There I have seen, that it stores the NuGet-Packages-Reference in the csproj-File as PackageReference. Now I am searching for the nupkg-files. Where are they stored in Visual Studio 2022? I didn't find them.
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