I upgraded VS 2022 to version 17.3.0 and have experienced nothing but disasters. Following is a list of error messages or phenomena:

1). "No projects managed by Nuget in solution" (this is a major forum entry at the MS Developer site, and someone learned that uninstalling VS setup and deployment 2022 resolved the issue).

2). No references were not found. If I clicked on a reference in the right panel in the Project window, all of the references had a gold-colored error icon on them, and in Properties, the path was empty. I think the path is intact in the code, but something in VS 17.3.0 is killing the paths for references.

3). It seems that certain features of Nuget references are not available in the release binary assembly. I can't confirm this, but something is going on there.

Overall, upgrading to 17.3.0 has resulted in some very squirrely, horrendous occurences for my VB.NET solution. Someone also mentioned using 17.2 and not 17.3.0 (MS Developer forum), so that's what I did - and have been able to restore everything.