How do I remove unnecessary resources from my project?

Question

I am working with a very big project (a solution that contains 16 projects and each project contains about 100 files).

It is written in C++/C# with Visual Studio 2005.

Answer 1

You may want to take a look at the tool Reflector (free), not to be confused with ReSharper (expensive). It can show you which DLLs are dependent on another. Then if you want you may be able to remove the DLL that is not being referenced by anything else. Watch out if you are using dependency injection or reflection which then could break your code without your knowledge.

Reflector: http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector/.

This add-in draws assembly dependency graphs and IL graphs: http://reflectoraddins.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Graph.