unable to locate nuget.exe when building webservice on appharbor

Question

I'm trying to deploy my webservice at appharbor using codeplex. After trying it the first time and doing some research I found out that I had to use NuGet so the references are being found..

Now I only have 1 error left which I don't know how to solve

   "D:\temp\g3wyilvx.uln\input\WebService\Webservice.sln" (default target) (1) ->
   "D:\temp\g3wyilvx.uln\input\WebService\Webservice\Webservice.csproj" (default target) (2) ->
   (CheckPrerequisites target) -> 
     D:\temp\g3wyilvx.uln\input\WebService\.nuget\nuget.targets(72,9): error : Unable to locate 'D:\temp\g3wyilvx.uln\input\WebService\.nuget\nuget.exe' [D:\temp\g3wyilvx.uln\input\WebService\Webservice\Webservice.csproj]
0 Warning(s)
1 Error(s)
Time Elapsed 00:00:00.17

How am I suppose to solve this error ? Any useful links that might help me in the future are also appreciated.

score 212 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

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I solved this by changing this line in my NuGet.targets file and setting it to true:

<DownloadNuGetExe Condition=" '$(DownloadNuGetExe)' == '' ">true</DownloadNuGetExe>

But you must restart Visual Studio or reload the solution (see this) for this to take effect.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

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answered Dec 10 '13 at 18:07

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For anyone who can't find it, the nuget.targets file is in the .nuget/ (usually hidden) subfolder of the project folder. – Jeff Hay May 17 '17 at 18:23
Thank you man. I have changed NuGet.targets as setting to tag "DownloadNuGetExe" to "true" but didn't restart VS and continue to get the error(s). So after restarting Visual Studio and rebuild solution everything is OK. Again - thanks ;) – Miroslav Hristov Nov 16 '19 at 08:14
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This is a workable solution if you want to keep using nuget.targets, but you can also just migrate away from this method of doing package restore and that's generally better. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/consume-packages/package-restore#migrating-to-automatic-restore – Harv Feb 10 '23 at 15:27

score 101 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 29 '13 at 17:11

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I resolved the problem by right clicking Solution and click

Enable NuGet Package Restore

answered Aug 29 '13 at 17:11

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I did'nt find your given option in my visual studio 2012 neither in solution nor in any project. – UMAR-MOBITSOLUTIONS Jan 02 '14 at 13:13

score 14 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 25 '13 at 21:59

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Executables might be ignored in your .gitignore via

*.exe

Add this line to .gitignore:

!.nuget/NuGet.exe

answered Mar 25 '13 at 21:59

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That applies to me. Thank you. – Blaise Oct 16 '15 at 18:52

friism · Answer 4 · 2015-11-16T20:59:40.027

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Here's a blogpost on using NuGet package restore with AppHarbor. In your case, the problem might be that you haven't included the .nuget folder in your repository.

edited Nov 16 '15 at 20:59

answered Dec 18 '12 at 23:10

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score 3 · Answer 5 · edited Oct 13 '15 at 14:15

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Enable NuGet Package Restore
Right click on solution then
select Enable NuGet Package Restore

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answered Oct 13 '15 at 13:23

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 12 '18 at 17:04

I faced this issue, when one of my colleague added a new project in solution. He added new packages from nuget. The above top rated answer was not acceptable for me because once I update nuget packages, it updates all referenced libraries in the project.

How I removed this error, by just removing import statements for nuget package from .csproj files.

To do so, right click on .csproj file, and open it in notepad and remove the statement.

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