remove nuget package restore from solution

Isn't it this setting here?

Options... -> Nuget Package Manager -> [uncheck] Allow Nuget to download missing packages

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I'm using Visual Studio Professional + Resharper 8.2


To disable Nuget Package Restore:

  1. Delete .nuget folder
  2. Remove specific lines from all .csproj files

Lines to remove:

<Import Project="$(SolutionDir)\.nuget\nuget.targets" />
<RestorePackages>true</RestorePackages>

Note: Make sure you do all changes in one go before reloading solution or else it will add them back.

This is based on the following article: http://bartwullems.blogspot.no/2012/08/disable-nuget-package-restore.html

Also, you might want to double-check that this option is disabled: http://docs.nuget.org/docs/workflows/using-nuget-without-committing-packages


I didn't look very well, there's another property added to the project files:

<RestorePackages>true</RestorePackages>

Just have to remove this as well as all these lines manually from all *.csproj files:

  <Import Project="$(SolutionDir)\.nuget\nuget.targets" />

UPDATE:

Turns out it's a persistent little bugger, if you're manually editing your project files, make sure to close the solution and delete all the lines from the project at once, otherwise they're just added again once the project reloads...

UPDATE2:

Delete the .nuget folder from the solution root too

UPDATE3:

A later version of NuGet adds another section that you need to remove:

 <Target Name="EnsureNuGetPackageBuildImports" BeforeTargets="PrepareForBuild">
    <PropertyGroup>
      <ErrorText>This project references NuGet package(s) that are missing on this computer. Enable NuGet Package Restore to download them.  For more information, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=322105. The missing file is {0}.</ErrorText>
    </PropertyGroup>
    <Error Condition="!Exists('$(SolutionDir)\.nuget\NuGet.targets')" Text="$([System.String]::Format('$(ErrorText)', '$(SolutionDir)\.nuget\NuGet.targets'))" />
  </Target>

Update4

Inside the NuGet.Targets located in the .nuget folder, there is another section that gets added to new projects... switch it to false.

<!-- We need to ensure packages are restored prior to assembly resolve -->
<BuildDependsOn Condition="$(RestorePackages) == 'false'">
    RestorePackages;
    $(BuildDependsOn);
</BuildDependsOn>