After branching in TFS, VS2015 Update 2 has missing references to all Nuget packages. Package restore says "All packages listed in packages.config are already installed."
I could manually add references to all of the packages in the \packages folder but why isn't VS already checking there?
Today, a project's NuGet package information is stored in a project-level packages. config folder. The assemblies are stored in a separate packages folder, usually at the solution level.
Restore packages (In Visual Studio, the references appear in Solution Explorer under the Dependencies \ NuGet or the References node.) If the package references in your project file are correct, use your preferred tool to restore packages. If the package references in your project file (. csproj) or your packages.
Update a package. In Solution Explorer, right-click either References or the desired project, and select Manage NuGet Packages.... (In web site projects, right-click the Bin folder.) Select the Updates tab to see packages that have available updates from the selected package sources.
You need use the NuGet command line in the Package Manager Console:
Update-Package -reinstall
to force reinstall the package references into project.
NuGet Restore only restores files in the packages directory (\packages folder ), but does not restore files inside your project or otherwise modify your project. For example, if a package has added some reference DLLs or other files in your project, if you delete any of these files, they will not be re-added when restoring this package. This may cause the your project to not be able to find the missing dependencies when building.
So use the "Update-Package -reinstall" command to force reinstall the package references and content files into project.
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