Visual Studio: Remove Unused References and Assemblies from your Project

When you create a default project in Visual Studio, there are a couple of references and assemblies that get added by default. Just create any new Window, Web, Console or Silverlight project using Visual Studio and check the using directives (only in C# templates) as well as the assemblies that get added.

You may not need them all. So after you have finished coding, it’s a good idea to remove unused references as well as assemblies from your project to improve code readability, maintainability as well as gain a slight advantage in the applications load time. If you are using a C# code template (VS 2008 and 2010), you can do the following:

Right-click in your Code behind file > Organize Usings > Remove Unused Usings

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