Alternatively you could also add a NuGet Installer build step before the Visual Studio Build step in your build configuration to restore all NuGet packages. There you can pass the location of your private repo as argument to nuget.exe: -source “https://www.nuget.org/api/v2/;http://mynugetserver”
To fix this error from Tools > NuGet Package Manager > Package Manager Console simply run: dotnet restore The error occurs because the dotnet cli does not create the all of the required files initially. Doing dotnet restore adds the required files.
It took far too long but I finally found this document on Migrating MSBuild-Integrated solutions to Automatic Package Restore and I was able to resolve the issue using the methods described here. Remove the ‘.nuget’ solution directory along from the solution Remove all references to nuget.targets from your .csproj or .vbproj files. Though not officially … Read more