diff --git a/pythonnet/.nuget/NuGet.Config b/pythonnet/.nuget/NuGet.Config
deleted file mode 100644
index 67f8ea046..000000000
--- a/pythonnet/.nuget/NuGet.Config
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
-<configuration>
-  <solution>
-    <add key="disableSourceControlIntegration" value="true" />
-  </solution>
-</configuration>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pythonnet/.nuget/NuGet.exe b/pythonnet/.nuget/NuGet.exe
deleted file mode 100644
index 8f6134029..000000000
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diff --git a/pythonnet/.nuget/NuGet.targets b/pythonnet/.nuget/NuGet.targets
deleted file mode 100644
index 83fe90601..000000000
--- a/pythonnet/.nuget/NuGet.targets
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,136 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
-<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
-    <PropertyGroup>
-        <SolutionDir Condition="$(SolutionDir) == '' Or $(SolutionDir) == '*Undefined*'">$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\..\</SolutionDir>
-        
-        <!-- Enable the restore command to run before builds -->
-        <RestorePackages Condition="  '$(RestorePackages)' == '' ">false</RestorePackages>
-
-        <!-- Property that enables building a package from a project -->
-        <BuildPackage Condition=" '$(BuildPackage)' == '' ">false</BuildPackage>
-
-        <!-- Determines if package restore consent is required to restore packages -->
-        <RequireRestoreConsent Condition=" '$(RequireRestoreConsent)' != 'false' ">true</RequireRestoreConsent>
-        
-        <!-- Download NuGet.exe if it does not already exist -->
-        <DownloadNuGetExe Condition=" '$(DownloadNuGetExe)' == '' ">false</DownloadNuGetExe>
-    </PropertyGroup>
-    
-    <ItemGroup Condition=" '$(PackageSources)' == '' ">
-        <!-- Package sources used to restore packages. By default, registered sources under %APPDATA%\NuGet\NuGet.Config will be used -->
-        <!-- The official NuGet package source (https://www.nuget.org/api/v2/) will be excluded if package sources are specified and it does not appear in the list -->
-        <!--
-            <PackageSource Include="https://www.nuget.org/api/v2/" />
-            <PackageSource Include="https://my-nuget-source/nuget/" />
-        -->
-    </ItemGroup>
-
-    <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(OS)' == 'Windows_NT'">
-        <!-- Windows specific commands -->
-        <NuGetToolsPath>$([System.IO.Path]::Combine($(SolutionDir), ".nuget"))</NuGetToolsPath>
-        <PackagesConfig>$([System.IO.Path]::Combine($(ProjectDir), "packages.config"))</PackagesConfig>
-    </PropertyGroup>
-    
-    <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(OS)' != 'Windows_NT'">
-        <!-- We need to launch nuget.exe with the mono command if we're not on windows -->
-        <NuGetToolsPath>$(SolutionDir).nuget</NuGetToolsPath>
-        <PackagesConfig>packages.config</PackagesConfig>
-    </PropertyGroup>
-    
-    <PropertyGroup>
-        <!-- NuGet command -->
-        <NuGetExePath Condition=" '$(NuGetExePath)' == '' ">$(NuGetToolsPath)\NuGet.exe</NuGetExePath>
-        <PackageSources Condition=" $(PackageSources) == '' ">@(PackageSource)</PackageSources>
-        
-        <NuGetCommand Condition=" '$(OS)' == 'Windows_NT'">"$(NuGetExePath)"</NuGetCommand>
-        <NuGetCommand Condition=" '$(OS)' != 'Windows_NT' ">mono --runtime=v4.0.30319 $(NuGetExePath)</NuGetCommand>
-
-        <PackageOutputDir Condition="$(PackageOutputDir) == ''">$(TargetDir.Trim('\\'))</PackageOutputDir>
-        
-        <RequireConsentSwitch Condition=" $(RequireRestoreConsent) == 'true' ">-RequireConsent</RequireConsentSwitch>
-        <NonInteractiveSwitch Condition=" '$(VisualStudioVersion)' != '' AND '$(OS)' == 'Windows_NT' ">-NonInteractive</NonInteractiveSwitch>
-        
-        <PaddedSolutionDir Condition=" '$(OS)' == 'Windows_NT'">"$(SolutionDir) "</PaddedSolutionDir>
-        <PaddedSolutionDir Condition=" '$(OS)' != 'Windows_NT' ">"$(SolutionDir)"</PaddedSolutionDir>
-
-        <!-- Commands -->
-        <RestoreCommand>$(NuGetCommand) install "$(PackagesConfig)" -source "$(PackageSources)"  $(NonInteractiveSwitch) $(RequireConsentSwitch) -solutionDir $(PaddedSolutionDir)</RestoreCommand>
-        <BuildCommand>$(NuGetCommand) pack "$(ProjectPath)" -Properties "Configuration=$(Configuration);Platform=$(Platform)" $(NonInteractiveSwitch) -OutputDirectory "$(PackageOutputDir)" -symbols</BuildCommand>
-
-        <!-- We need to ensure packages are restored prior to assembly resolve -->
-        <BuildDependsOn Condition="$(RestorePackages) == 'true'">
-            RestorePackages;
-            $(BuildDependsOn);
-        </BuildDependsOn>
-
-        <!-- Make the build depend on restore packages -->
-        <BuildDependsOn Condition="$(BuildPackage) == 'true'">
-            $(BuildDependsOn);
-            BuildPackage;
-        </BuildDependsOn>
-    </PropertyGroup>
-
-    <Target Name="CheckPrerequisites">
-        <!-- Raise an error if we're unable to locate nuget.exe  -->
-        <Error Condition="'$(DownloadNuGetExe)' != 'true' AND !Exists('$(NuGetExePath)')" Text="Unable to locate '$(NuGetExePath)'" />
-        <!--
-        Take advantage of MsBuild's build dependency tracking to make sure that we only ever download nuget.exe once.
-        This effectively acts as a lock that makes sure that the download operation will only happen once and all
-        parallel builds will have to wait for it to complete.
-        -->
-        <MsBuild Targets="_DownloadNuGet" Projects="$(MSBuildThisFileFullPath)" Properties="Configuration=NOT_IMPORTANT;DownloadNuGetExe=$(DownloadNuGetExe)" />
-    </Target>
-
-    <Target Name="_DownloadNuGet">
-        <DownloadNuGet OutputFilename="$(NuGetExePath)" Condition=" '$(DownloadNuGetExe)' == 'true' AND !Exists('$(NuGetExePath)')" />
-    </Target>
-
-    <Target Name="RestorePackages" DependsOnTargets="CheckPrerequisites">
-        <Exec Command="$(RestoreCommand)"
-              Condition="'$(OS)' != 'Windows_NT' And Exists('$(PackagesConfig)')" />
-              
-        <Exec Command="$(RestoreCommand)"
-              LogStandardErrorAsError="true"
-              Condition="'$(OS)' == 'Windows_NT' And Exists('$(PackagesConfig)')" />
-    </Target>
-
-    <Target Name="BuildPackage" DependsOnTargets="CheckPrerequisites">
-        <Exec Command="$(BuildCommand)" 
-              Condition=" '$(OS)' != 'Windows_NT' " />
-              
-        <Exec Command="$(BuildCommand)"
-              LogStandardErrorAsError="true"
-              Condition=" '$(OS)' == 'Windows_NT' " />
-    </Target>
-    
-    <UsingTask TaskName="DownloadNuGet" TaskFactory="CodeTaskFactory" AssemblyFile="$(MSBuildToolsPath)\Microsoft.Build.Tasks.v4.0.dll">
-        <ParameterGroup>
-            <OutputFilename ParameterType="System.String" Required="true" />
-        </ParameterGroup>
-        <Task>
-            <Reference Include="System.Core" />
-            <Using Namespace="System" />
-            <Using Namespace="System.IO" />
-            <Using Namespace="System.Net" />
-            <Using Namespace="Microsoft.Build.Framework" />
-            <Using Namespace="Microsoft.Build.Utilities" />
-            <Code Type="Fragment" Language="cs">
-                <![CDATA[
-                try {
-                    OutputFilename = Path.GetFullPath(OutputFilename);
-
-                    Log.LogMessage("Downloading latest version of NuGet.exe...");
-                    WebClient webClient = new WebClient();
-                    webClient.DownloadFile("https://www.nuget.org/nuget.exe", OutputFilename);
-
-                    return true;
-                }
-                catch (Exception ex) {
-                    Log.LogErrorFromException(ex);
-                    return false;
-                }
-            ]]>
-            </Code>
-        </Task>
-    </UsingTask>
-</Project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pythonnet/setup.py b/pythonnet/setup.py
index d91951141..925022324 100644
--- a/pythonnet/setup.py
+++ b/pythonnet/setup.py
@@ -95,7 +95,6 @@ def build_extension(self, ext):
             "/p:Platform=%s" % _platform,
             "/p:DefineConstants=\"%s\"" % _defines_sep.join(defines),
             "/p:PythonBuildDir=%s" % os.path.abspath(dest_dir),
-            "/p:NoNuGet=true",
             "/verbosity:%s" % VERBOSITY,
         ]
 
diff --git a/pythonnet/src/clrmodule/clrmodule.csproj b/pythonnet/src/clrmodule/clrmodule.csproj
index 3254edd52..9ac5aac77 100644
--- a/pythonnet/src/clrmodule/clrmodule.csproj
+++ b/pythonnet/src/clrmodule/clrmodule.csproj
@@ -119,7 +119,6 @@
     <None Include="packages.config" />
   </ItemGroup>
   <Import Project="$(MSBuildToolsPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />
-  <Import Project="$(SolutionDir)\.nuget\NuGet.targets" Condition="'$(NoNuGet)' != 'true' And Exists('$(SolutionDir)\.nuget\NuGet.targets')" />
   <Import Project="..\..\packages\UnmanagedExports.1.2.3-Beta\tools\RGiesecke.DllExport.targets" Condition="Exists('..\..\packages\UnmanagedExports.1.2.3-Beta\tools\RGiesecke.DllExport.targets')"/>
   <Target Name="AfterBuild" DependsOnTargets="RGieseckeDllExport">
 	<Copy SourceFiles="$(TargetPath)" DestinationFiles="$(PythonBuildDir)\clr.pyd" />
diff --git a/pythonnet/src/embed_tests/Python.EmbeddingTest.csproj b/pythonnet/src/embed_tests/Python.EmbeddingTest.csproj
index acd7e2591..6a1752783 100644
--- a/pythonnet/src/embed_tests/Python.EmbeddingTest.csproj
+++ b/pythonnet/src/embed_tests/Python.EmbeddingTest.csproj
@@ -169,7 +169,6 @@
     </ProjectReference>
   </ItemGroup>
   <Import Project="$(MSBuildBinPath)\Microsoft.CSHARP.Targets" />
-  <Import Project="$(SolutionDir)\.nuget\NuGet.targets" Condition="'$(NoNuGet)' != 'true' And Exists('$(SolutionDir)\.nuget\NuGet.targets')" />
   <ProjectExtensions>
     <VisualStudio AllowExistingFolder="true" />
   </ProjectExtensions>
diff --git a/pythonnet/tools/nuget/nuget.exe b/pythonnet/tools/nuget/nuget.exe
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index 000000000..9cba6edbf
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