How do I delete NuGet packages that are not referenced by any project in my solution

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Somehow during the upgrade to VS2012 and  NET 4 5  I ve managed to get NuGet confused   There are packages that appear in the package manager  and the packages folder  that I cannot delete  I believe they are legacy ASP NET NuGet packages that have been replaced with new package names with the new version   They each have only a Manage  button -- but no uninstall button   And when you look to see where they are used  you can see that they are referenced by none of the solution s projects   They are NOT displaying an Uninstall

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If you want to use Visual Studio option  please see How to remove Nuget Packages from Existing Visual Studio solution   Step 1  In Visual Studio  Go to Tools NuGet Package Manager Manage NuGet Packages for Solution      Step 2  UnCheck your project s  from Current solution   Step 3  Unselect project s  and press OK

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An alternative  is install the unused package you want to delete in any project of your solution  after that  uninstall it and Nuget will remove it too   A proper uninstaller is needed here

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Solution 1  Use the powershell pipeline to get packages and remove in single statement like this  Get-Package   Uninstall-Package   Solution 2  if you want to uninstall selected packages follow these steps   Use GetPackages to get the list of packages  Download Nimble text software Copy the output of GetPackages in NimbleText For each row in the list window  Set Column Seperator to   if required Type Uninstall-Package  0  Substitute using pattern window  Copy the results and paste them in Package Manage Console   That be all folks

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If you have removed package using Uninstall-Package utility and deleted the desired package from package directory under solution  and you are still getting error   just open up the   csproj file in code editor and remove the tag manually  Like for instance  I wanted to get rid of Nuget package Xamarin Forms Alias and I removed these lines from   csproj file   And finally  don t forget to reload your project once prompted in Visual Studio  after changing project file   I tried it on Visual Studio 2015  but it should work on Visual Studio 2010 and onward too  Hope this helps

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First open the Package Manager Console  Then select your project from the dropdown list  And run the following commands for uninstalling nuget packages   Get-Package  for getting all the package you have installed   and then  Uninstall-Package PagedList Mvc  --- to uninstall a package named PagedList MVC  Message  PM gt  Uninstall-Package PagedList Mvc Successfully removed  PagedList Mvc 4 5 0 0  from MCEMRBPP PIR

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If you want to delete uninstall Nuget package which is applied to multiple projects in your solutions then go to    Tools-  Nuget Package Manager -  Manage Nuget Packages for Solution In the left column where is  Installed packages  select  All   so you ll see a list of installed packages and Manage button across them  Select Manage button and you ll get a pop out  deselect the checkbox across project name and Ok it   The rest of the work Package Manager will do it for you

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One NuGet package can reference another NuGet package  So  please be very careful about inter-package dependencies  I just uninstalled a Google map package and it subsequently uninstalled underlying packages like Newtonsoft  Entity Framework  etc   So  manually deleting particular package from packages folder would be safer

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VS2019  gt  Tools  gt  Options  gt  Nuget Package Manager  gt  General  gt  Click on  quot Clear All Nuger Cache s  quot

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From the Package Manager console window  often whatever command you used to install a package can be used to uninstall that package  Simply replace the INSTALL command with UNINSTALL   For example  to install PowerTCPTelnet  the command is   Install-Package PowerTCPTelnet -Version 4 4 9  To uninstall same  the command is   Uninstall-Package PowerTCPTelnet -Version 4 4 9

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You can use Package Manager Console with command  Uninstall-Package PackageId to remove it  or just delete package folder from  packages  folder under solution folder   More information about Package Manager Console you can find here  http   docs nuget org docs reference package-manager-console-powershell-reference

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I ve found a workaround for this    Enable package restore and automatic checking  Options   Package Manager   General  Delete entire contents of the packages folder  to Recycle Bin if you re nervous   Manage Nuget Packages For Solution Click the restore button    NuGet will restore only the packages used in your solution  You end up with a nice  streamlined set of packages

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