Clarification on dotnet restore in solution with mixed old/new CSPROJ schema based projects

dotnet restore in solution directory restores the dependencies of all the “.NET Core” projects in the solution. It does not restore the non-NetCore ones in the solution (the ones which are using old CSPROJ format with packages.config to enlist their dependencies).

nuget restore (where NUGET is v3.4, v3.5 or v4.0) in solution directory only restores the dependencies of non-NETCore projects, but does not understand the inline references in new CSPROJ schema (<PackageReference .. />).

After some experimentations, I have figured:

• Although running both nuget restore && dotnet restore addresses the problem, but if we instead use nuget restore && dotnet restore --packages ./packages, dotnet-restore clears the packages directory first which was populated by dotnet restore.
• Having packages.config for NETCore projects enlisting all the dependencies which we have in new CSPROJ (in the form of <PackageReference .. />); enables nuget restore to take care of restoration singlehandedly. Tested with NuGet v3.4, v3.5 and v4.0.

Can (/will) dotnet restore enumerate packages.configs in the projects, so we only need to use one tool to restore the packages in mixed solution scenarios?

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dotnet --info

.NET Command Line Tools (1.0.0)

Product Information:
 Version:            1.0.0
 Commit SHA-1 hash:  e53429feb4

Runtime Environment:
 OS Name:     Windows
 OS Version:  10.0.14393
 OS Platform: Windows
 RID:         win10-x64
 Base Path:   C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\1.0.0

[emgarten]

@am11 you only need to run nuget.exe restore, it restores everything dotnet restore does and it also restores packages.config.

https://dist.nuget.org/win-x86-commandline/v4.0.0/nuget.exe

[am11]

@emgarten, you are right, Just clicked on the link and tested it worked! 😮 I thought I have nuget 4 in path (aliased nuget40), but it was actually pointing to nuget 3.5 😢

cd c:\repos\project
:: clean repo, start over
git clean -xdf && git submodule foreach "git clean -xdf"

:: with the real nuget4.0
nuget restore

:: builds happily with MSBuild15
"%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\MSBuild"

Thanks a lot! 👏