Opening project in Visual Studio fails due to nuget.targets not found error
Visual StudioNugetTwitterizerVisual Studio Problem Overview
So I downloaded Twitterizer from http://www.twitterizer.net/downloads/
I try to open it in Visual Studio and get all these nuget errors:
The imported project "C:\Twitterizer\.nuget\nuget.targets" was not found.
Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct, and that the file
exists on disk.
What is going on. How do I deal with this?
Visual Studio Solutions
Solution 1 - Visual Studio
- Install Nuget.
- Right click on the solution and select "Enable NuGet Package Restore". In Visual Studio 2013 and later, select "Restore NuGet Packages" instead.
- Click Ok on the warning.
- Close and re-open the solution.
Should now be hunky-dory.
Solution 2 - Visual Studio
An alternative is to edit the .csproj file with a texteditor and remove or comment out the
Solution 3 - Visual Studio
This error normally happens when you are trying to open a .csproj
directly, not through the solution file, and the .csproj
imports the Nuget targets like this:
<Import Project="$(SolutionDir)\.nuget\NuGet.targets" />
In order to solve it, you can either open the .sln
and not the .csproj
directly...or remove the import
line above.
Notice that the mentioned error will only happen when you are using solution wise
package restore, which isn't even recommended anymore.
Solution 4 - Visual Studio
Just ran into the same problem, but in my case the issue was a space in the folder name:
Nuget was telling me it couldn't find "C:\git\My Path" but I was able to navigate to "C:\git\My%20Path". Removing the space in the foldername "fixed" the issue.
Solution 5 - Visual Studio
I know I'm late to the party but here is a really good tutorial on how to fix this issue. I used this to fix my project.
> Close down Visual Studio If the solution you are trying to migrate is
> open in Visual Studio, then changes may be lost. Visual Studio may
> overwrite/ignore your changes in some cases and the NuGet extension
> will also try to re-enable Package Restore when it sees some projects
> in the solution are missing it.
>
> If you are using TFS Remove the NuGet.exe and NuGet.targets files from
> the solution's .nuget folder. Make sure the files themselves are also
> removed from the solution workspace. Retain the NuGet.Config file to
> continue to bypass adding packages to source control. Edit each
> project file (e.g., .csproj, .vbproj) in the solution and remove any
> references to the NuGet.targets file. Open the project file(s) in the
> editor of your choice and remove the following settings:
>
>
Solution 6 - Visual Studio
When i get the nuget.targets not found
error i use the package manager to uninstall-package
one of the packages in the project and then reinstall it using install-package
. It seems like it regenerates the nugets.target file then.
Solution 7 - Visual Studio
Easiest solution when you get this error in order to restore the missing NuGet.targets
in Visual Studio Solution Explorer is to:
- Right click on the solution file
- From the context menu click "Enable Nuget Package Restore..." option
this will download the missing files in the ".nuget
" folder :)
The above assumes you already have Nuget installed - if not follow the accepted answer above!
UPDATE: Please note for Visual Studio versions beyond 2013 the option is called "Restore NuGet Packages"