NuGet does not unpack assemblies from package

The workaround outlined on this page seemed to work - https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/1656768/installing-certain-nuget-packages-fails-to-actually-extract-the-dll-files-to-the-relevant-lib-folder-and-fails-to-add-an-assembly-reference-to-the-csproj-file

Posted by Miles Rush on 11/25/2015 at 12:16 PM

Just fixed this on my > system. Went in to the user profile NuGet cache (C:\Users\.nuget\packages), and deleted everything in there. I think during the restore process my cache was cleared of all DLL files, and when I tried to install a package it was using the cache instead of the files off of NuGet. Now that I've cleared the cache, I can now install the NuGet packages.