After switching from System.Data.SqlClient to Microsoft.Data.SqlClient in one of my solutions I am unable to permanently remove unused System.Data.SqlClient from the solution as it keeps getting restored by NuGet.
When I search the entire solution for ‘System.Data.SqlClient’ nothing is found and none of the .csproj files contain a PackageReference entry for it.
What I tried so far:
- Clean/Rebuild solution.
- Delete all the bin/obj folders under affected projects followed by Clean/Rebuild solution.
- nuget locals all -clear followed by Clean/Rebuild.
- nuget delete System.Data.SqlClient 4.8.1 in Package Manager Console
- Install the latest as Top-level package and uninstall (when I do this 4.8.1 is again restored as Transitive.
I have no further ideas.