'Remove Unused References' not in menu for non-SDK style projects

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This issue has been moved from a ticket on Developer Community.

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[severity:It's more difficult to complete my work]
Just installed 16.10.0 - I still don't see Remove Unused References in several C# project types even though I've enabled it in options. Please let us know how to enable it, thanks!

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Original Comments

Jason Thorpe on 5/25/2021, 00:43 PM:

It showed for me, but only in a .net core project. I’m disappointed this wasn’t made to work in .net framework projects.

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M Kennedy on 5/26/2021, 10:18 AM:

“Remove Unused References”
Only shows on SDK type .csproj projects and not legacy .csproj projects.
When it does show, it always displays “Nothing to remove” even though there are obvious references
that have nothing to do with the project. Was really looking forward to this feature.

Iltan CANER on 6/8/2021, 00:28 PM:

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Saravanaram Kumarasamy on 6/18/2021, 11:48 PM:

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Todd Dworshak on 6/23/2021, 10:09 AM:

Seeing the same thing. Sometimes “Remove Unused References” appears on the project menu, and sometimes it doesn’t. Same project. I have yet to find a pattern to it. Super strange.

Joey Robichaud on 7/13/2021, 03:32 PM:

As pointed out in the comments, the “remove unused references” functionality only works with the newer SDK-style projects. I will move this issue to the Roslyn GitHub so that we can continue to gauge demand for this functionality with Full Framework projects.

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Original Solutions

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[jinujoseph]

Remove unused references only work with SDK-style projects currently

[JoeRobich]

Another developer community post - https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Remove-unused-References-is-not-presen/1434714

[JoeRobich]

A few more developer community posts:
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/The-new-Remove-Unused-References-featu/1411987
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/No-option-to-enable-Remove-Unused-Refer/1431678

[jeffjmc]

Not sure where to track this feature request: the ticket in the developer community is linked at the top of this discussion [https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Remove-Unused-References-not-in-menu/1431565] is closed as duplicate and points back to this discussion. Just want to add a vote for adding the "Remove Unused References" feature to all project types.

[Valentein47]

I used this feature all the time in my previous org when I had Resharper intstalled. I'm really surprised not to see this available for a normal .NET Framework C# class library project.

[frozzen10]

any updates on this ticket?

[m0lDaViA]

2 years later still no solution on microsoft side...

[CyrusNajmabadi]

@m0lDaViA we'd definitely always appreciate community help on issues you're passionate about! :-)

[sauravbhattacharya001]

installing ReSharper just because I need this feature.

[hfickes]

Lots of people still use .Net Framework because we need to. In our case, its because Office only supports .Net Framework with VSTO. We can't move to the latest .Net.

Please add this feature for .Net Framework projects.