Installed but not added as a reference in the project

Question

I install all my packages in a project using the following nuget command line command:

nuget install packages.config -o ..\packages 

Everything is correctly loaded and added to packages, but project links are not added. If I right-click the solution folder and select nuget to manage packages, can I see the packages installed in the project, but no links for the following packages are added?

Did I miss a step here?

Answer 1

This is by design. We never modify a project file outside of VS. The command you run basically “restores my packages folder” and should be used with this http://docs.nuget.org/docs/workflows/using-nuget-without-committing-packages workflow.