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bendahmon
bendahmon

Reputation: 553

Easier way to find missing references in VS2010 C# solution

I just opened a solution from TFS using Visual Studio 2010. The solution contains more than 100 projects (if up to me, it would probably be less than 5) and many of them happen to miss a reference (to Unity dll's).

Is there any way to simplify the fixing of these references? Now I have to delete and re-add all of them manually. Hassle.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5441

Answers (4)

user604613
user604613

Reputation:

To fix the problem you need to find out from where it tries to load the files. You can do so looking in the project csproj file. You either have newer (or different) versions of the assemblys installed or you have a different file and folder structure. You need to recreate the file and folder structure that has been used in that project or rewrite the csproj file to the new location.

For the future you might want to change how 3rd party references are handled. I have good experiences using this approach: Define a ThirdPartyLibraries Folder where all those libraries go and check it in. It should be in the solution folder. Everybody has to put 3rd party libs in there from now on and use them instead.

Upvotes: 2

Polyfun
Polyfun

Reputation: 9651

If the location of the referenced assembly has changed, then it is relative simple to do a Find and Replace in files on the .csproj files to replace the broken reference with the correct one.

Upvotes: 0

Kiru
Kiru

Reputation: 3565

You can add all those binaries in to Binaries folder and add in to your TFS.

Now add the binaries as existing item in your solution items, so that when you open the solution it fetches all the solution items as well.

Make sure the references are added from the binaries folder.

Upvotes: 0

Jeremy
Jeremy

Reputation: 58

Might want to check out resharper, it might do what you need for references. I know it helps optimize and identify references in classes, not sure at the project level. Resharper has a 30 day trial

Upvotes: 1

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