Wednesday, May 17, 2006
How to remove a reference to a project or .dll in a WebSite (Visual Studio 2005)

Problem:
You created a WebSite in Visual Studio 2005 and added a reference to another project or a .dll.
Now, if you want to remove this reference, you can't simply delete the .dll in the "Bin" folder of the WebSite. After a rebuild, the deleted .dll will be recreated from VS automatically.

Solution:
To remove the reference, open the Proptery Pages of the WebSite (right click on your WebSite in Solution Explorer and select "Property Pages"). The first time after a restart of VS, you will get the following "dialog":

Just try it once again, and it will work. Here you can remove your reference permanently.

ASP.NET 2.0 | Visual Studio 2005
5/17/2006 11:07:33 AM (Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit , UTC+02:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
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