unit tests: Metadata dll not found.

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Whenever I build my solution, the unit tests are unable to reference the StyleCop Analyzers Nuget packages. I've tried uninstalling the packages, cleaning and re-building them, reinstalling the Nuget packages, cleaning and re-building them, restoring the Nuget packages but none of these methods seem to work. I am unable to progress as this is posing problems in the Jenkins pipeline.

Chian Hao Aw [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] Selected answer as best 3rd July 2023

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Hi Chian

This is a known problem (something that Visual Studio doesn't properly clean up) when migrating from packages.config to PackageReference. The fix is very easy though:

Open the csproj file and remove the 2 lines below:

Chian Hao Aw [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] Selected answer as best 3rd July 2023