Background on NuGet Package Restore and Automatic Package RestoreNuGet Package Restore allows you to reference NuGet packages in your project without shipping them with your source code or committing them to source control. The general idea is that the packages are restored - that is, downloaded and installed - into your project when it is build. This offers a number of benefits, including better interaction with source control and smaller code distributions.
NuGet Package Restore was originally implemented using an MSBuild task, so whenever you ran a build in Visual Studio the build step would handle the package restore before continuing with the next steps in the build process. This worked, but had a few downsides. For one, it required MSBuild to work, which conflicts with cross-platform development, build servers, etc. Another issue is that it required a separate .nuget direc ...
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