Cannot change dependency version from default of lowest.

[FaustoNascimento]

Using Visual Studio 2022 17.2.3, trying to install protobuf-net.Grpc, which lists the following dependencies (among others):

Grpc.Core.Api >= 2.36.1
protobuf-net >= 2.4.6

Grpc.Core.Api's current version is 2.46.3 and the current version for protobuf-net is 3.1.4.

I would like the latest dependencies to be installed, not the default of lowest version.

Using Install-Package protobuf-net.Grpc -DependencyVersion Highest doesn't do anything at all. I've made sure that my Default package management format is set to Packages.config in Visual Studio 2022 and I've also tried modifying the %appdata%\NuGet\NuGet.Config file, currently it reads as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
  <packageSources>
    <add key="nuget.org" value="https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json" protocolVersion="3" />
  </packageSources>
  <packageRestore>
    <add key="enabled" value="True" />
    <add key="automatic" value="True" />
  </packageRestore>
  <bindingRedirects>
    <add key="skip" value="False" />
  </bindingRedirects>
  <packageManagement>
    <add key="format" value="0" />
    <add key="disabled" value="False" />
  </packageManagement>
  <config>
    <add key="dependencyversion" value="Highest" />
  </config>
</configuration>

Yet no matter what I try NuGet always downloads the lowest version dependencies, how do I change this behaviour?

[nkolev92]

In PackageReference, only 1 algorithm is available: #5553 covers the highest algorithm ask.