In this SharePoint PnP tutorial, we will discuss how to solve error which comes while adding SharePointPnPCoreOnline dll from Nuget package in visual studio 2017. If you will use PnP dlls in SharePoint Add-in development then it will increase the productivity of the developers by abstracting complex operations.
Recently when I was downloading SharePoint Online PnP dll through Nuget package in visual studio 2017, it gave an error:
An installation file didn’t download
After nine attempts there was a problem downloading the following file which is required to continue.
Select Retry to try downloading the file again.
Select Cancel to cancel the visual studio install. It looks like below:

After nine attempts there was a problem downloading the following file which is required to continue
The Solution was little strange, we were using wifi to download it. It seems there was some problem in wifi.
We connect through internet cable and this time it downloaded perfectly.
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Hope this will help to resolve error After nine attempts there was a problem downloading the following file which is required to continue visual studio 2017.
Hello Everyone!! I am Bhawana a SharePoint MVP and having about 10+ years of SharePoint experience as well as in .Net technologies. I have worked in all the versions of SharePoint from wss to Office 365. I have good exposure in Customization and Migration using Nintex, Metalogix tools. Now exploring more in SharePoint 2016 🙂 Hope here I can contribute and share my knowledge to the fullest. As I believe “There is no wealth like knowledge and no poverty like ignorance”