NuGet Package Can't Be Installed in .Net 3.5 Solutions

[adamrodger]

Ninject.Web.Common has WebActivator as a dependency, which has a dependency on Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure. However, Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure doesn't contain a .Net 3.5 assembly and so the dependency installation fails with the following:

Install-Package Ninject.Web.Common
Attempting to resolve dependency 'Ninject (= 3.0.0.0 && < 3.1.0.0)'.
Attempting to resolve dependency 'WebActivator (= 1.5)'.
Attempting to resolve dependency 'Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure (= 1.0.0.0)'.
Successfully installed 'Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure 1.0.0.0'.
Successfully installed 'WebActivator 1.5.1'.
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Successfully installed 'Ninject.Web.Common 3.0.0.7'.
Successfully added 'Ninject 3.0.1.10' to OSA-CBMClasses.
Successfully uninstalled 'Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure 1.0.0.0'.
Install failed. Rolling back...
Install-Package : Could not install package 'Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure 1.0.0.0'. You are trying to install this package into a project that targets '.NETFram
ework,Version=v3.5', but the package does not contain any assembly references or content files that are compatible with that framework. For more information, co
ntact the package author.
At line:1 char:16
+ Install-Package <<<<  Ninject.Web.Common
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Install-Package], InvalidOperationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NuGetCmdletUnhandledException,NuGet.PowerShell.Commands.InstallPackageCommand

This has a knock-on effect preventing a number of other extensions, such as Ninject.Extensions.Wcf, from installing as they rely on Ninject.Web.Common.

[remogloor]

We have to check what can be done for that.

Removing WebActivator in'st an option though as it makes it much more complicated for almost everyone while make it simpler just for a vast minority of users of the package.

[remogloor]

Fixed in 872aa9f

[ianpaton]

Hi guys,

I tried adding ninject.web into a .NET 3.5 ASP.NET web site today and it failed with the same reason Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure does not support 3.5, has this patch made it to production?

Thanks
Ian

[adamrodger]

The current stable version of Ninject.Web.Common on NuGet.org is 3.0.0.7 (released 2012-03-26, 7 months before this issue was raised) which still has the dependency on Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure.

The unstable versions starting at 3.0.2-unstable-0 (released 2013-02-13, after @remogloor made commit 872aa9f) remove the dependency on WebActivator, but obviously this a pre-release version. I'm not sure when 3.0.2 will become stable, @remogloor may be able to answer that.

Regards,
Adam