On larger and/or long running projects, I tend to reference many assemblies and namespaces, and often I end up removing some functionality later on or moving it into a different project.
I just wonder, is there a way to check every project (heck, every .cs file) in my whole Visual Studio solution and get a list of all referenced Assemblies and Namespaces that are not actually being used and can be safely removed? I know that ReSharper can do it for a single Code File, but I did not see an option to check all files or to check for unneeded Assemblies.
Using Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 Professional if that matters.
Edit: Thanks so far. The Problem with ReSharper or ‘Remove and Readd if build breaks’ is that it’s quite tedious on every single file and assembly (My project has about 120 .cs Files in 7 Assemblies, and references a total of 18 Assemblies outside of the solution), so ideally i’m looking for something ‘one-click’. Big Bonus points for some automatic way that can be used in buildscripts to generate a report 🙂
Resharper will do this for you and you can set it up in the Clean Code option that you can run solution wide ;o)