Nuget Packages are missing in Visual Studio

Question

I have been using xamarin studio, it works fine when I download a sample project from mvvmcross. It compiles and deploys the device perfectly.

But when I open the project in the visual studio, there are a lot of missing packages for some reasons. Is there a way of handling ? I am using Nuget 2.8 in Visual studio 2013

When I open Nuget as follows, there is a button to restore the missing packages. I clicked on it.

Then it is attempting to download the missing packages, and then it realizes there are dependencies as follows:

Then I am attempting to download the dependency manually as follows but it shows the packages has already downloaded but I am still seeing the missing packages in the solution, nothing is affected.

Therefore I am getting hundreds of errors as follows:

When I take a look at the property of missing packages, I see as follows

Answer 1

You should update your NuGet Package Manager extension in Visual Studio and then try restoring the packages again.

The restore error MvvmCross.Binding already has a dependency defined for MvvmCross.Core is caused by an old version of the NuGet package manager extension not recognising the newer target frameworks that the MvvmCross.Binding NuGet package is using in its group dependencies. This bug has been fixed in a newer version of the NuGet Package Manager.

If you search for the 'already has a dependency defined' error message you will find several cases of this, such as this StackOverflow question, for example:

Can not install NuGet package