How to Remove unused references from C sharp projects in Visual Studio

In this tutorial we describe Step by step How to Remove unused references from C sharp projects in Visual Studio .
We'll use a free tool which can be downloaded from the Visual Studio Gallery Extensions Tools:
The snapshot below is an example of removing unused references from a MVC C# application :

How to Remove unused references from C sharp projects in Visual Studio

As said before, go to the  Visual Studio Gallery and download the tool:

After downloaded, install it:

Finished the installation, open the install Log :

As you can see, the tool will search all Visual Studio products in your machine, and will install itself only in the VS 10.00 versions:

 Take a look at the projects menu:

After the setup, you will see another menu inviting to remove references.
Finished the setup, you can see that the tool has been added to Visual Studio:

Now you have a new option at the menu:

To test the tool, create a vanilla MVC C# project, and take a look at the assemblies:

Run the tool from the menu, to see the references removed:

Now there remained only the required assemblies to run the application:

That's all. We hope that this tool will be useful to you.

Happy programming.....

      by Carmel Schvartzman

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