Attempting to build a C# project which has numerous references to assemblies in NuGet packages fails in TeamCity but works fine in Visual Studio.
Found in the log;
For SearchPath "{HintPathFromItem}".
[13:48:15][ResolveAssemblyReference]
Considered "..\packages\AspNetMvc.4.0.20126.16343\lib\net40\System.Web.Mvc.dll", but it didn't exist.
The reference in the project file is;
<Reference Include="System.Web.Mvc, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35, processorArchitecture=MSIL">
<Private>True</Private>
<HintPath>..\packages\AspNetMvc.4.0.20126.16343\lib\net40\System.Web.Mvc.dll</HintPath>
</Reference>
Any ideas? It seems like it's not starting from the correct directory so can't resolve "../packages" which exists one level above the .csproj file.
I had restructured my projects since installing the NuGet packages so even though '../packages' was correct for the main project, it wasn't for the other projects which had been moved.
Uninstalling and re-installing the NuGet packages writes the paths correctly or more straightforward, doing a find and replace on the paths in each .csproj file.