Is there any way to recreate packages.config file?

Question

I accidentally missed to upload to source control NuGet packages.config file and it got deleted somehow:(

Is there any way to recreate it?

Answer 1

An easier way will be just go to Nuget and reinstall the packages. It will create the package.config file

Answer 2

It's kind of tricky to do it in an automated way. Easiest is to simply re-create the packages.config manually, added entries for each directory in the packages dir. For example, I have the following dirs in my packages directory:

Microsoft.Bcl.1.1.3
Microsoft.Bcl.Async.1.0.16
Microsoft.Net.Http.2.2.15
Newtonsoft.Json.5.0.8
repositories.config
WindowsAzure.MobileServices.1.0.2
WPtoolkit.4.2013.08.16

If I were to re-create the packages.config, I could simply take the directory name, separate the version number and create a line for each package like:

  <package id="Microsoft.Bcl" version="1.1.3" targetFramework="wp71" />

adding the targetFramework attribute to whatever target that project was using.

Then wrap all of those <package> elements with

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<packages>
 <!--...-->
</packages>

Resulting in something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<packages>
  <package id="Microsoft.Bcl" version="1.1.3" targetFramework="wp71" />
  <package id="Microsoft.Bcl.Async" version="1.0.16" targetFramework="wp71" />
  <package id="Microsoft.Net.Http" version="2.2.15" targetFramework="wp71" />
  <package id="Newtonsoft.Json" version="5.0.8" targetFramework="wp71" />
  <package id="WindowsAzure.MobileServices" version="1.0.2" targetFramework="wp71" />
  <package id="WPtoolkit" version="4.2013.08.16" targetFramework="wp71" />
</packages>

Answer 3

Why not use the console-manager?

For restoring you van both use the NuGet package manager as the console.

Restore packages using Package Restore

Some things only work with the console??(?correct?)

Micrsoft Docs: How to reinstall and update packages

Ref.: Why, when and how to reinstall NuGet packages after upgrading a project