During the process, you should be always aware of the compatibility between the. NET framework and the assembly. I'll try to share a screen capture of the property page, but I have always struggled to get an image to show up in these forums.

Hopefully this is it:. Dropping a DLL in a web application's bin folder is the same as creating a reference. Can you explain the reason for removing DLLs from the bin folder? Hi, no image. Or if you suspect a DLL is not used any more, remove it and see what happens when recompiling.

Preferably use a source code control software or do a backup first. The reason why I'd like to remove the. DLL's from the bin folder, is because the original developer copied. DLLs from various projects into the bin folder. Let me give you an example. Most of the DLLs the original developer used were all written here, many years ago by people who've long since left. One of these DLLs had a method that was passed a number, but what in heck was that for? No explanation, no hint in Visual Studio because whoever wrote the DLL never bothered to use the Summary feature available in Visual Studio for decorating a method call with a comment so the developer can put in which show up Visual Studio for other developers to see.

Anyway, it took me a few weeks to find the code. I eventually did, so I could see what was going on. Whoever wrote that had it accept an integer that would write to the. Whoever the author was for that probably had a background in writing DOS applications. That worked, 15 or more years ago when it was originally written and everyone had the same monitor.

But it wasn't working when I had to take it over. What was happening is the monitors people were using today didn't bring the hyperlinks far enough down from an image. Half of the hyperlinks were behind the image, so users couldn't interact with them as they needed to. You did not really answer the question. You did manage to throw previous developers under the bus though. Keep in mind that browser do not display white space characters like control and line feed.

Again, DLLs are shared libraries. The DLLs may or may not be in the same solution as a web project. This is very common situation if your organization supports many web applications and the web applications share common DLLs.

By default,. In the following examples, some of the specified SDKs and runtimes may not be included in the output, depending on the state of the machine. To include all SDKs and runtimes, list them explicitly as arguments or use the --force option. Since this tool has a destructive behavior, it's highly recommended that you do a dry run before running the remove command.

The dry run will show you what. Refer to Should I remove a version? By default, all commands keep the. These SDKs and runtimes can be uninstalled by listing them explicitly as arguments or by using the --force option. Run the tool in an Administrator command prompt on Windows and with sudo on macOS. The dry-run and whatif commands don't require elevation. In the following examples, some of the specified SDKs and runtimes may remain, depending on the state of the machine.

To remove all SDKs and runtimes, list them explicitly as arguments or use the --force option. Remove all. NET Runtimes except the version 3. In some cases, you no longer need the NuGetFallbackFolder and may wish to delete it. Delete the downloaded dotnet-core-uninstall. If you unzipped the contents of this file into another directory, be sure to delete that content as well. Feedback will be sent to Microsoft: By pressing the submit button, your feedback will be used to improve Microsoft products and services.

Privacy policy. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. What do you think you need to keep from the defaults for your ASP. Does my two-step methodology what is this and can I delete it?

Am I totally off my rocker? Share in the comments! Can I Delete It? I examine the item in question and ask myself the following questions: What is this? Folders and Files Here's a screenshot of our default MVC project, and the folders and files it created. The reason we do this is primarily to allow ASP.

NET to minify and bundle files, thus reducing the total data sent over a network and the total number of network requests respectively. YES FilterConfig. As with other files in this folder, you can pretty easily set this up in the Global file, though there's not really a better place for it than where it is. NET how to handle routing , whether by convention or using attributes.

If you're not using Bootstrap, you'll want to remove these. If you want to use this file, you can, but you could also just as easily add more CSS files to this folder. Controllers The Controllers folder will only have one file in it, HomeController. YES Scripts This folder is exactly what it sounds like; it contains several JavaScript files and is meant to be the single repository for all such files.

Views Another folder that is exactly what it sounds like: a place for storing. Technically you can delete this file but you won't want to. This file sets a "default" layout that all other views use unless they specify another.

This file does something very important; it sets up the configuration of your. Antlr Immediately we find a package which is included in the project because it is a dependency in another package. Validation This is a useful plugin for jQuery which enables client-side validation.

YES Microsoft. Mvc This package includes all the scaffolding and other code you need to make an ASP. Razor This package is a bit confusing. Optimization Remember the BundleConfig. WebPages The description for this package is just as confusing as the Razor one: "This package contains core runtime assemblies shared between ASP. Validation This is a Microsoft-written package that integrates with jQuery to provide simple client-side validation for MVC projects.

Compilers This package allows. Infrastructure This particular package appears to be an interesting case. Modernizr Modernizr is an absolutely fantastic little library that helps you detect if the browser your application is running in supports more advanced features of HTML5 and CSS3. Summary Sometimes it is useful to know exactly what we can and cannot delete, because the best code is often no code at all.

Mvc package Microsoft. Razor package Microsoft. WebPages package Microsoft. Infrastructure package How about you? Web, hence the two usings. You can add any other namespaces you need to this view so that other views can reference them.

By default, it merely sets the layout view, but it can be extended to run any kind of code necessary. Like all the other views, you CAN delete it, but I highly recommend not doing so, as it is a convenient place for common code in views.

Continuing with the minor theme of "we hate web. In point of fact, you can actually have several of these, named appsettings. But, if you don't need any appsettings which is probably not true, but if it is, more power to you , you can remove it. YES but I sincerely doubt you'll actually want to. NET to be installed on the server it is running on. Because of this, we have a file called Program.

You can delete this, but if you do, you have to replace its functionality. The default Startup. The name Startup is merely a convention, and you can easily configure another file to do the same thing, but why would you want to? Finally, we come to the NuGet packages that are included by default.

Surprisingly, there are only two of them This looks like a standard NuGet package, but it is in fact a metapackage , or collection of packages. This particular collection is required for any. NET Core. Want to guess what happens when you remove it? NO unless you're not gonna use. This is also a metapackage, and includes the packages needed to run an ASP. Not surprisingly, this follows: Can I Delete It? NO unless you're not making a website any longer.

You may have noticed that the only time I declared something to be un-deletable was the two metapackages in the previous section. I assure you this is quite deliberate: ASP. You can configure ASP. However, if you just wanna use the defaults, you can hit the ground running. Any folder or file can be removed, though for many of them this is probably not optimal. If you're thinking "that looks pretty close to what was provided in the default app," I agree.

How about you? Are you using ASP. Did I omit something from the "bare-minimum" app that you think should be required? Sound off in the comments! NET Tutorials.