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Updating NuGet packages

This documentation and the underlying platform code is a work in progress.

The versions of the NuGet packages used in your project must match the version of the react-native-windows npm package.

Determine npm version

You can find the npm version by opening package.json at the root of your project and looking in the dependencies section:

{
  "name": "MyProject"
  ...
  "dependencies": {
    ...
    "react-native-windows": "0.64.0"
  },
  ...

In this example the npm version for react-native-windows is 0.64.0. Note that if you use preview, Your version might include a preview marker like 0.65.0-preview.1.

Determine and update the NuGet version

For Windows there are two project types: C++ and C#. If you don't know which one you can look in the windows/MyProject folder. If you find a MyProject.vcxproj file, you have a C++ project. If you find a MyProject.csproj file, you have a C# project. Each project type has different instructions. For either you can use both the Visual Studio IDE or a text editor. Note: The Visual Studio IDE only runs on Windows and is not the same as Visual Studio Code. If you use Visual Studio for Mac, please follow the text editor instructions.

• C#
  • Text editor
  • Visual Studio IDE
• C++
  • Text editor
  • Visual Studio IDE

C# project - Text editor

1. Open windows/MyProject/MyProject.csproj in a text editor
2. Find the Package reference section:

    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.ReactNative.Managed">
      <Version>0.64.0</Version>
    </PackageReference>
   

3. Change the version element.

C# project - Visual Studio IDE

1. Open the solution in Visual Studio

2. Right-Click on the C# project file MyProject (Universal Windows) in the Solution Explorer window

   

3. Select "Managed NuGet Packages..."

4. Select the "Installed" tab

   

5. If the npm version has a hyphen with a preview marker, you must check the "Include Prerelease" per the image above.

6. Select the package Microsoft.ReactNative.Managed

7. Select the version of your npm package in the version drop-down on the right side.

   

8. Click install

9. Close the dialog and save your project

C++ project - Text editor

1. Open windows/MyProject/packages.config in a text editor.
2. Update the version attributes of both Microsoft.ReactNative and Microsoft.ReactNative.Cxx packages
3. Open windows/MyProject/MyProject.vcxproj in a text editor.
4. Perform a search and replace for:
   • packages\Microsoft.ReactNative.0.64.0
   • packages\Microsoft.ReactNative.Cxx.0.64.0 and replace it with the the version number of the npm package. There should be multiple strings to replace.

C++ project - Visual Studio IDE

1. Open the solution in Visual Studio

2. Right-Click on the C++ project file MyProject (Universal Windows) in the Solution Explorer window

   

3. Select "Managed NuGet Packages..."

4. Select the "Installed" tab

   

5. If the npm version has a hyphen with a preview marker, you must check the "Include Prerelease" per the image above.

6. Perform the next two steps for both Microsoft.ReactNative and Microsoft.ReactNative.Cxx packages:

   1. On the right side, from the version drop-down select the version of your npm package

      

   2. Click install

7. Close dialog and save your project