<p>With NuGet 2.7 the Visual Studio Extension's NuGet package restore has been improved.</p><p><a data-cke-saved-href="http://docs.nuget.org/docs/release-notes/nuget-2.7#Automatic_Package_Restore_in_Visual_Studio" href="http://docs.nuget.org/docs/release-notes/nuget-2.7#Automatic_Package_Restore_in_Visual_Studio">http://docs.nuget.org/docs/release-notes/nuget-2.7#Automatic_Package_Restore_in_Visual_Studio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To make it short: It does not rely anymore on: <code>.nuget</code>-folder, <code>NuGet.targets</code> or <code>NuGet.exe</code></p><p>It also should allow opening the solution even if there are no NuGet packages available, yet, including those that import another msbuild <code>targets</code>-file.</p><p>Building MP2 via build scripts, still needs a NuGet.exe, but this we already have our own <code>RestorePackages.targets</code> for.</p>