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Microsoft 365 Dev PnP Core component (.NET) targeted for increasing developer productivity with CSOM based solutions.
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Lots of "Failed to add reference" errors when adding Nuget Package #1448

Open r998877 opened 6 years ago

r998877 commented 6 years ago

Category

[ x] Bug [ ] Enhancement

Environment

[ ] Office 365 / SharePoint Online [ ] SharePoint 2016 [ x] SharePoint 2013

If SharePoint on-premises, what's exact CU version: 15.0.4911.1000

Expected or Desired Behavior

Adding Nuget Package in VS works without errors.

Observed Behavior

When adding Nuget Package SharePointPnPCore2013 (Install-Package SharePointPnPCore2013 -Version 2.20.1711) lots of errors are thrown like

Install-Package : Failed to add reference. The package 'SharePointPnPCore2013' tried to add a framework reference to 'Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Search.Applications, Version=15.0.0.0' which was not found in the GAC. This is possibly a bug in the package. Please contact the package owners for assistance.

This is just an example. Other DLLs are missing as well. The Nuget Package expects certain SharePoint CSOM DLLs in the GAC, but on a normal client PC (not a SharePoint server) those DLLs are not present. To overcome this issue lots of SharePoint DLLs have to be copied over from a SharePoint server to a local client PC - in total 11 DLLs for the Nuget Package to work.

Steps to Reproduce

Start Visual Studio Create console application (Target Framework 4.6.1) Open Nuget Package Manager console Run: (Install-Package SharePointPnPCore2013 -Version 2.20.1711

catcake commented 6 years ago

For those looking for a temporary solution:

Download this repository and add all of the files in PnP-Sites-Core-master\Assemblies\15 as references.

r998877 commented 6 years ago

Is there a link missing?

catcake commented 6 years ago

I didn't put one originally but here's the download I was referring to: https://github.com/SharePoint/PnP-Sites-Core/archive/master.zip

alwonghn commented 6 years ago

The error tells the name of the missing dependencies - install them manually and run the package again.

Rus7am commented 6 years ago

I just had this problem. I installed Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Online.CSOM package with SharePoint CSOM DLLs and still got this error.

It turned out I had to make sure SharePoint DLLs are referenced in the project where I try to install SharePointPnPCore2013