NuGet not updating project references

Question

I recently migrated all my Visual Studio 2013 projects to Visual Studio 2015 and followed the steps documented in this article by Nuget to make sure that automatic package resto

Answer 1

I was facing an issue with NuGet package of Newtonsoft.Json as shown below:

I tried all possible solutions but none of the below mentioned ones worked:

• Cleaning solution
• Rebuilding solution
• Clearing NuGet package cache

Finally I realized it had something to do with .NET Framework version targeted by my C# project. There was some mismatch it seems. The moment I upgraded the .NET Framework version of my project to latest, the Newtonsoft.Json package dependency and its reference came alive instantly.