在VS发布工作时，Azure持续部署在Newtonsoft上失败

Question

I added a new packages that required Newtonsoft.Json version >= 9.0.1 while so far I had 8.0.2.

The solution builds and runs fine on VS. However, when I push the branch, the continuous deployment build on Azure fails.

The type or namespace name 'Newtonsoft' could not be found

There isn't any error on assembly loading or resolving.

However if I publish on Azure from Visual Studio it works.

What can be wrong with my CD build and how can I repare it?

The solution has only one project.

Answer 1

Make sure that you have same Newtonsoft.Json version across all your projects.

Check that Newtonsoft.Json assemblyBinding in config files is right and same across all projects

Make sure that you Enabled NuGet Package Restore

Answer 2

All the SOF questions about uninstalling\\reinstalling Newtonsoft package as well as checking assemblyBindings etc led me in a wrong direction.

My build server (Azure Continuous Deployment) loads packages in a folder called packages at the root of the solution. However as I have many solutions on my machine, I have a single package folder elsewhere. In order for the build server to work, I had created a junction package folder at the root of my solution linked to the proper package folder of my machine. What I had forgotten is that when I add new packages, Visual Studio put the paths of the correct package folder rather than the junction.

Hence, in order to repair my server build I just had to edit my csproj file to redirect new (and updated like Newtonsoft ) packages to the junction folder.