_Layout programming lost after Nuget Update-Package with Visual Studio 17 - layout

After applying Update-Package on a long solid MVC Application, the _Layout markup has been lost. This took place in 4/26/2017.
I couldn't determine which updated component from NuGet is causing the error.
However, I also created a new clean .NET Framework MVC Application. With no other actions, did an Update-Package. The new Application has also lost its _Layout rendering. My framework level is 4.6.1

At least one of the problems is the result of the Nuget batch Update-Package modifying the Bootstrap version to 4.1.0
The fix is using Nuget Package Manager on References and lowering the Bootstrap version to 3.3.7 At least my new clean trial MVC application is then correctly displaying the _ Layout page.
But this hasn't corrected my major application.
Further Fix. In my main application I removed using Nuget in the following order:
Bootstrap
Microsoft.jQuery.Unobtrusive.Validation
jQuery.Validation
jQuery
Then clear the Scripts folder in the Project View
In the reverse order of above Install, at the latest version:
jQuery
jQuery.Validation
Microsoft.jQuery.Unobtrusive.Validation
Bootstrap(3.3.7)
Now the Scripts Folder should be regenerated.
At this point my application is displaying the correct _Layout

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Upgrading Liferay 6.2 maven plugins into Liferay 7 module

There are many sites which provides articles for upgrading liferay 6.2 to dxp but only for ant project. How can we upgrade liferay 6.2 maven project to liferay dxp gradle project ?
The strategy to upgrade your code is exactly the same. Liferay's Plugins SDK defaulted to Ant until 6.2, now you have the choice between liferay-workspace (gradle based), gradle and maven - just choose the build environment you'd like (sounds like you'd like to continue with maven) and add your code to an empty blueprint for the project of your choice.
There's an upgrade tool in Liferay IDE that might help you - even if it doesn't use the build tool of your choice or if eclipse isn't the IDE of your choice: The upgrade tool is a one-off tool to use during upgrade. No matter what the result is on: You can always check (for example) Liferay's blade-sample project to find the proper build descriptors for Maven - and adapt them to your project.
Edit: After the clarification: Your main task is still the upgrade of the code. As of moving from Maven to gradle: Identify the dependencies and translate from pom.xml syntax to gradle's declaration - the contents are similar (e.g. group, name, version), only how you're writing them down is different. If you have made elaborate custom modifications to your pom.xml try to go without them first. You can start with a stock build.gradle (e.g. from blade-samples that most closely match your project) and then fix compile-time dependencies as you go.
I'm not aware of an automated process that does this translation for you (and most likely you'd bump up a few version numbers in the process anyway)

Orchard AutoFac Conflicts

I am currently working on a project in Orchard. We are looking to wrap up an existing .NET MVC Web application within an Orchard Module. Currently, we are having issues with AutoFac.
The original site was built using AutoFac 3.5, however the latest stable version of Orchard is still running on 3.0. The application requires features introduced in 3.3. If I install 3.0 into the module, the features do not work, if I have 3.5 in the module, it produces a conflict.
Can anybody suggest a way of handling this conflict? Or, is it safe to upgrade AutoFac 3.0 in Orchard and if so how should I perform this without breaking it?
Thanks,
If I may suggest, Orchard 1.9 should be released soon™ and it already has dependency on latest stable Autofac 3.5.2. If you don't want to wait you can grab latest repository from GitHub
https://github.com/OrchardCMS/Orchard/tree/1.9-int
It's perfectly stable in my opinion and I find released 1.8.1 to be much more buggy :D.
Copy the web.config file runtime Node from Existing Module (Lucene or Markdown or like) and add the runtime node on conflicts Module Web.Config file. After Compile then clear the Conflict

Catel 4.0.0 and Dependency on Microsoft.Bcl.Build

When updating a project to use current Catel version (4.0) I am getting this warning:
All projects referencing MyInfrastructureProject.csproj must install nuget package Microsoft.Bcl.Build. For more information, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=317569.
The error is reported for projects that references MyInfrastructureProject.csproj.
I find it odd that I need to add additional libraries to other project especially when it is concerned with nuget (if I am getting the picture correctly) and not with actual functionality of my code (or maybe even Catel). But in any case, I don't really understand the issue.
I searched a little for this issue but didn't find relevant details or explanations.
Should I go ahead and add the Microsoft.Bcl.Build reference everywhere in my project?
Thanks,
Tomer
If you don't know what is Microsoft.Bcl.Async you should study it.
Catel uses this feature pack so as to use async/await on .NET 4 and Silverlight 5. So if you use Catel in a .NET 4 project, you inherit the same dependencies, which is what the warning says.
Thus, yes, please go ahead and add the NuGet package to the necessary projects, or simply upgrade your projects to .NET 4.5 and reapply the NuGet packages.

Make NuGet WebApi.HelpPage package go away

I did this in the NuGet console to try out the Web Api help package:
Install-Package Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.HelpPage
Now everytime I create a MVC Web Api project I get Areas\HelpPage.
I tried:
PM> Uninstall-Package Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.HelpPage
Skipping 'Areas\HelpPage\Views\_ViewStart.cshtml' because it was modified.
Skipping 'Areas\HelpPage\Views\_ViewStart.cshtml' because it was modified.
Skipping 'Areas\HelpPage\Views\_ViewStart.cshtml' because it was modified.
Skipping 'Areas\HelpPage\Views\_ViewStart.cshtml' because it was modified.
Successfully removed 'Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.HelpPage 4.0.0' from MvcApplication16.
Successfully uninstalled 'Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.HelpPage 4.0.0'.
PM>
I decided not to use the HelpPage pacakge.
How can I make that HelpPage and its Area go away and not be in every project I create?
It's actually a feature in VS2012.2 update (or webtools 2012.2 release). It's not due to that you installed that package once or not. If you don't like it, you have 2 options:
1. remove the package everytime you after creating a new webapi project
2. Create a customized webapi template (search on asp.net on how to do that) that only installs the packages that you'd like

orchard cms: module package not installing

Setup:
I have created a module that works fine in the solution where it was created, ie, the orchard source code. I then package it up using package create.
Edit: I now realize that the problem appeared IMMEDIATELY after installing visual studio 2012.
Problem:
If I now install the module on a different app using the package and install from file, all the alerts show the module is installed, it appears in the features list, it is enabled... but there are no menu items, no entry in the migrations table, nothing.
Edit: Nothing appears in the logs. The files are, however, installed correctly in the modules folder of the site.
Question:
What could be going wrong that stops the module being properly installed using the package given that the module works fine in the source code solution where it was created??
Any suggestions?
Edit:
How could installing visual studio 2012 have affected Orchard?
I notice that installing visual studio 2012 resulted in various bits of sql server 2012 being installed at the same time. Could this be relevant? EG, is this why the migrations code never runs?
Edit on the basis of Bertrand Le Roy's comments (see below this question):
BertrandLeRoy says that having ASP.NET MVC 4 installed in the GAC, as well as Razor 2 (both of which came with VS 2012), is the problem.
He suggests upgrading to Orchard 1.5.x.
However:
I have tried using a new install of Orchard 1.5.1, and the problem is the same:
Creating a new module using VS 2012 and Source Code for Orchard 1.5.1 and the module appears correctly when running the orchard site from VS.
Creating a package and then installing that into an Orchard 1.5.1 site, eg, using WebMatrix, running and then installing the package has the following effect:
2.1. The alerts in the dashboard tell me that the package has installed correctly.
2.2. However, enabling the feature does nothing.
2.3. This is hardly surprising, as installing the package has not even run the migrations.
The last test I can do is to see if the package runs on a web server that doesn't have asp.net mvc4 installed. I will post back once that is done.
However, the main point is that using Orchard 1.5.1 produces the exact same result. So, if the problem really is the fact that MVC 4 and Razor 2 are on the machine, then Orchard 1.5.1 is not solving it.
Ie, what will happen when I install mvc 4 on the web server as I will inevitably have to for other, non Orchard apps?
I experienced the same thing on version 1.8.1. That is, the module appeared to install fine, but it didn't actually perform migrations or load correctly.
Initially, I saw nothing in the log to indicate a problem. However, after adjusting the /Config/log4net.config file to log ALL instead of just ERROR messages. I got this:
... Orchard.Environment.Extensions.Loaders.PrecompiledExtensionLoader -
- Extension "Transformalize" will not be loaded as pre-compiled extension
because one or more referenced extension is dynamically compiled
The part saying my module "will not be loaded as pre-compiled extension because one or more referenced extension is dynamically compiled" seemed to explain why my module wasn't loading. So, I Googled and found this documentation regarding the Orchard module loader and dynamic compilation. It's a bit complicated at 2 AM, but what I gathered is my module's reference to another module (Orchard.Autoroute in this case) caused the log message (above) in the production environment. I removed my module's reference and dependency on Orchard.Autoroute, and then it installed fine.
The documentation explains how modules are dynamically compiled and how the settings in /Config/HostComponents.config can change how things work.

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