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Asked: 2026-06-14T15:27:54+00:00

I have a large solution with number of projects. Some the projects depend on

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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 project, I am getting an error message like “The dependency was added by the project system and cannot be removed”. What is the cause for this error? How I can solve this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    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 <ProjectReference> 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 <ProjectReference> element (i.e. starting with <ProjectReference> and ending with </ProjectReference> inclusive). Save the file.
    • Reload the solution.
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