Manage NuGet Packages not visible on menu

Question

Using Visual Studio 2012 Premium on Win 7 x64, I make a new project (an MVC 4 project). When right-clicking on the project, I see no 'Manage NuGet Packages' option. A packages folder exists in the solution directory, as does a package.config file in the project directory. When going to Tools, there is no Manage NuGet Packages option, either. When going to Tools->Extensions and Updates..., the NuGet Package Manager is installed and up to date.

Any idea why my project is unable to manage the NuGet packages for itself?

Here's a screenshot of the menu:

Solution 1

My solution came in the form of wiping out all traces of the NuGet Package Manager, including all registry files. Because the registry files have weird names, searching for things like NuGet.Core as well as just about anything in the Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\11.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions folder. After clearing those out, restarting the computer, reinstalling NuGet, and then restarting again seemed to clear up the issue.

Solution 2

I had a similar problem. The problem was next: I've installed NuGet Packager instead of NuGet Package Manager (from Extensions and Updates). Once I've installed the last one, it appeared in the context menu. Maybe you faced the same problem.

Solution 3

I had to uninstall the Nuget Package Manager from Extensions and Updates, and then reinstall it. After restarting Visual Studio, the missing menu entries appeared.

Solution 4

First of all there are something's you should check

• Make sure you are in debug mode
• Make sure your not running the debugger
• The 'NuGet Package Manager' is installed and not the 'NuGet Packager'
• Your project was created using the VS IDE - to check this, you can simply create a new solution in VS and see that you are still missing the 'Manage NuGet Packages' option in the menu.

Now if this issue still appears you can try taking the following steps:

1. Clean out your Extensions folder. Extensions folder can be found under the VS folder \Common7\IDE\Extensions. i.e. if vs2013 in 64 bit, then C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions
2. Uninstall the NuGet Package Manager from Extensions and Updates
3. Restart VS
4. Install the NuGet Package Manager from Extensions and Updates

Hope this was helpful

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[brazilianldsjaguar]

Thanks for the answer, but unfortunately that is not the case. It was the NuGet Package Manager for sure.