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What to do if Visual Studio won't download the DLL for a NuGet package
One annoying problem is when sometimes you try to build your solution, only to get a pile of compilation errors due to a missing DLL. This is often caused by one of the DLLs not downloading from NuGet. The package will be in packages.config, but only the .pdb file gets downloaded.
Even more annoying is when you're the only developer to have this problem. Everyone else can build the solution without problem.
The answer is fairly simple, but not obvious. Read more for the details.
How to sort and filter on a child entity when using Include()
It seems we aren't the only ones to find filtering and sorting child entity collections unnecessarily painful. Someone has been kind enough to write a Nuget package (part of a suite of them by the looks of things) that simplifies your code significantly.
This package removes the need for some of the tortuous hoops we had to negotiate before.