Add references from copied package.config

Question

I want to copy packages.config of a project into newly created project and add reference with it in VS2015 SP3.

This post introduces Update-Package -Reinstall -ProjectName Your.Project.Name but it does not work as I expected. Not all packages are added to project even though it has same build environment (.NET 4.5.2 Console App). Moreover, it overwrites packages.config to only added packages after the reinstall process.

How to do it correctly?

+ Append Below is my actual packages.config content.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<packages>
  <package id="Microsoft.Azure.KeyVault.Core" version="1.0.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs" version="1.1.2" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Core" version="1.1.2" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Extensions" version="1.0.1" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="Microsoft.Data.Edm" version="5.8.1" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="Microsoft.Data.OData" version="5.8.1" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="Microsoft.Data.Services.Client" version="5.8.1" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore" version="1.1.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Relational" version="1.1.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer" version="1.1.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Abstractions" version="1.1.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Memory" version="1.1.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection" version="1.1.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.Abstractions" version="1.1.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="Microsoft.Extensions.Logging" version="1.1.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions" version="1.1.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="Microsoft.Extensions.Options" version="1.1.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="Microsoft.Extensions.Primitives" version="1.1.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="Microsoft.NETCore.Platforms" version="1.1.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="Microsoft.Tpl.Dataflow" version="4.5.24" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="Microsoft.Web.WebJobs.Publish" version="1.0.12" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ConfigurationManager" version="3.2.3" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="ncrontab" version="2.0.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="NETStandard.Library" version="1.6.1" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="Newtonsoft.Json" version="9.0.1" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="Remotion.Linq" version="2.1.1" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="SimpleInjector" version="3.3.2" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="SimpleInjector.Extensions.ExecutionContextScoping" version="3.3.2" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="SlowCheetah" version="2.5.15" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.Collections" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.Collections.Concurrent" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.Collections.Immutable" version="1.3.1" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.ComponentModel" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.Diagnostics.Debug" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.Diagnostics.DiagnosticSource" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.Diagnostics.Tools" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.Diagnostics.Tracing" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.Globalization" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.Interactive.Async" version="3.0.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.IO" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.IO.Compression" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.Linq" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.Linq.Expressions" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.Linq.Queryable" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.Net.Http" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.Net.Primitives" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.ObjectModel" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.Reflection" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.Reflection.Extensions" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.Reflection.Primitives" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.Resources.ResourceManager" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.Runtime" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.Runtime.Extensions" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.Runtime.InteropServices" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.Runtime.InteropServices.RuntimeInformation" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.Runtime.Numerics" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.Spatial" version="5.8.1" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.Text.Encoding" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.Text.Encoding.Extensions" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.Text.RegularExpressions" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.Threading" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.Threading.Tasks" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.Threading.Timer" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.Xml.ReaderWriter" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="System.Xml.XDocument" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net452" />
  <package id="WindowsAzure.Storage" version="8.0.1" targetFramework="net452" />
</packages>

Answer 1

Please accept the Reload or Reload All after the reinstall process complete.

I got the same result after accept the Reload or Reload All to load the update project from disk in the process of reinstalling. Because your project is unload after accept the Reload or Reload All and the process of reinstalling is in progress. The packages could not be installed to the project during the project unload, NuGet will over write the package.config to only added packages before project unload.

The solution for this issue is that accept the Reload or Reload All after the reinstall process complete.

Update

There are different prompt for Conflicting File Modification Detected during the reinstalling. Please accept Reload or Overwrite after the reinstall process complete.