Removing all unused references from a project in Visual Studio projects

Question

I just wondered if it possible within various Visual Studio versions to automatically remove all references from a project that were never been used?

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Answer 1

For Visual Studio 2013/2015/2017 there is an extension that does exactly what you want: ResolveUR. What this basically does is:

• reference is removed in the project
• project is compiled with msbuild
• check for build errors
• restore removed references if there were build errors.