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Jeroen
Jeroen

Reputation: 63840

NuGet Package Manager not seeing one package as already updated

I want to know how I can debug a NuGet package not properly showing as updated. In my specific case the package for jQuery.Validation is (the only one left) in the "Update" list, but hitting the update button does nothing. Here's the dialog for Managing NuGet Packages for my solution:

Manage NuGet Packages dialog

Hitting the "Update" button will give an additional popup:

dialog for updating the package

As you can see everything seems slightly grayed out (what does that mean?). Hitting "Ok" just brings me back to the other dialog.

The main problem is that I don't know how to debug this sort of problem. I've tried doing the following:

Is this just a bug in the Package Manager or the package? How can I further debug the root cause of this problem?

I'm using Visual Studio 2012, have updated the product as well as all extensions (including the NuGet package manager). The solution was originally based on an MVC 2 template, and has been updated for each major MVC release (currently up to MVC 5). Only this particular package is giving trouble, I've succesfully updated 10+ other packages just before this one.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4289

Answers (1)

Matt Ward
Matt Ward

Reputation: 47987

This can happen if you have an old NuGet package left in the packages directory.

When managing packages for the solution the NuGet dialog will show updates for all packages that are in the packages directory even if they are not installed into any projects. If you manage the packages for the project on its own the NuGet dialog would not show any package updates as being available.

So the workaround is to remove the unwanted NuGet package from the packages directory.

Upvotes: 2

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