How do I delete NuGet packages that are not referenced by any project in my solution?

Question

Somehow during the upgrade to VS2012 and .NET 4.5, I\'ve managed to get NuGet confused. There are packages that appear in the package manager (and the packages folder) that I c

Answer 1

From the Package Manager console window, often whatever command you used to install a package can be used to uninstall that package. Simply replace the INSTALL command with UNINSTALL.

For example, to install PowerTCPTelnet, the command is:

Install-Package PowerTCPTelnet -Version 4.4.9

To uninstall same, the command is:

Uninstall-Package PowerTCPTelnet -Version 4.4.9