Manually editing .config packages

Question

I am -.net/C# noob (Java / servlet programmer for a long time)

i inherited the mvc 3 project and worked on it for about 2 months. just opened package.config for the first time and looked at the jquery stuff in it:

<package id="jQuery" version="1.5.1" /> <package id="jQuery.vsdoc" version="1.5.1" /> <package id="jQuery.Validation" version="1.8.0" /> <package id="jQuery.UI.Combined" version="1.8.11" /> 

my project never used NuGet for anything. I understand that this file is used by NuGet.

If I just edited this file and deleted the lines from it, there would be some bad side effects.

Answer 1

This is the file used by nuget for dependency tracking.

Answer 2

Information about the NuGet packages that were installed in the project through Visual Studio. It cannot be edited manually.