I’ve got a project that relies on an obsolete (no longer available through Nuget.org) version of System.Data.Sqlite (v1.12) due to later versions dropping their support for RC4 encrypted databases after that point.

I’m trying to spin up a new project in Visual Studio that similarly relies on the same versions of the packages, but merely copying the same elements from the old .proj file and copying the packages.config and packages folder from the old project does not result in a project that contains those nuget packages (as seen in Visual Studio’s “Manage Nuget Packages”).

Where are the actual references to Nuget packages stored for a project? And is it possible to hand-edit a file to add them in? (Since in my case, it’s not possible to add them through the Nuget Package Manager interface, as the online source is no longer available).

Thanks for any help you can offer!