Question

not a showstopper but when using nuget in a project, it creates a packages.config file with this shape

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<packages>
   ... your packages
</packages> 

this gives a warning in VS

The 'packages' element is not declared.

The origin of the problem got something to do with the xml declaration I guess.

Also I think that the default definition package shouldn’t throw warnings.

Does anyone know what should I change it to so I don’t get this warning? (ie even if I can see it only when the file is open, it also shows as a warning constantly with certain CA rules on.)

Answer 1

You can always make simple xsd schema for ‘packages.config’ to get rid of this warning. To do this, create file named “packages.xsd”:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" elementFormDefault="qualified"
      targetNamespace="urn:packages" xmlns="urn:packages">
  <xs:element name="packages">
    <xs:complexType>
      <xs:sequence>
        <xs:element name="package" maxOccurs="unbounded">
          <xs:complexType>
            <xs:attribute name="id" type="xs:string" use="required" />
            <xs:attribute name="version" type="xs:string" use="required" />
            <xs:attribute name="targetFramework" type="xs:string" use="optional" />
            <xs:attribute name="allowedVersions" type="xs:string" use="optional" />
          </xs:complexType>
        </xs:element>
      </xs:sequence>
    </xs:complexType>
  </xs:element>
</xs:schema>

Location of this file (two options)

• In the same folder as ‘packages.config’ file,
• If you want to share packages.xsd across multiple projects, move it to the Visual Studio Schemas folder (the path may slightly differ, it’s D:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Xml\Schemas for me).

Then, edit <packages> tag in packages.config file (add xmlns attribute):

<packages xmlns="urn:packages">

Now the warning should disappear (even if packages.config file is open in Visual Studio).