dotnet restore keeps using local project instead of nuget package

Question

I have a .NET-core project in Visual Studio 2015. In it, I used a Nuget package, but after finding a bug in the package, I checked out its source code and included the library p

Answer 1

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Local projects take precedence over NuGet packages. I don't know at what level this is baked-in, though.

The solution is to explicitly specify in your project.json that you want to reference a NuGet package and not the project in the same solution.

"YourNuGetPackageName": {
    "type": "package",
    "version": "VersionOfYourNuGetPackage"
}

You can have a look at an example here.