© copyright 21.Jul.2010 by Paul Bradley posted under VB.
I have been working on the same Visual Studio project for over twelve months, and over that time the obj and bin sub-folders have become littered with temporary build files and different versions of the compiled .exe file.
As a result the project folder and all it’s sub-folders has grown to over 18Mb - as I work over a VPN, copying this project has become progressively slower, so I needed to clean and purge the unwanted files.
Visual Studio comes with a command line utility called devenv, which can be used with a clean switch, to purge your project folders of these unnecessary files. Using the commands below, the project was reduced to 3Mb - an 84% saving.
cd "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE"
devenv /clean Debug c:\project\project.sln
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