Removing all unused references from a project in Visual Studio 2008 / 2010

Question

Hey

I just wondered if it possible within Visual Studio 2008 / 2010 to automatically remove all references from a project that were never been used.

Answer 1

See this post

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/142627/tools-for-finding-unused-references

Answer 2

In a Visual Basic project there is support to remove "Unused References" (Project-->References-->Unused References). In C# there isn´t such a function.

The only way to do it in a C# project (without other tools) is to remove possible unused assemblies, compile the project and verify if any errors occur during compilation. If none errors occur you have removed a unused assembly. (See my post)

If you want to know which project (assembly) depends on other assemblies you can use NDepend.