Error while removing project dependency in VS2010

Question

I have a large solution with number of projects. Some the projects depend on others (never a circular dependency though).

When I tried to remove a dependency of a p

Answer 1

I sometimes get this problem when I try to manually edit projects/solutions generated by our CMake system. I solve it manually:

• Open the dependent .vcproj file in your favorite text editor.
• Find tag corresponding to the dependency you want to remove (the include attribute of the tag will contain the name of the dependency project).
• Remove the whole element (i.e. starting with and ending with inclusive). Save the file.
• Reload the solution.