How do I find files that are missing from visual studio projects?

Question

Due to issues with merging etc, we have lots of project files that don’t contain all source code files that are within their folders.

Before I write a little tool, that

Answer 1

In my search for a solution for this, I ran into this VS Extension, but it only works with VS 2012. It's also on Github.

For VS 2013+ I use a Powershell script found on this blog post. Note that it only works for C# projects, but you can modify it for VB projects.

#Author: Tomasz Subik http://tsubik.com
#Date: 8/04/2012 7:35:55 PM
#Script: FindProjectMissingFiles
#Description: Looking for missing references to files in project config file
Param(
    [parameter(Mandatory=$false)]
    [alias("d")]
    $Directory,
    [parameter(Mandatory=$false)]
    [alias("s")]
    $SolutionFile
)


Function LookForProjectFile([System.IO.DirectoryInfo] $dir){
    [System.IO.FileInfo] $projectFile = $dir.GetFiles() | Where { $_.FullName.EndsWith(".csproj") } | Select -First 1

    if ($projectFile){
        $projectXmlDoc = [xml][system.io.file]::ReadAllText($projectFile.FullName)
        #[xml]$projectXmlDoc = Get-Content $projectFile.FullName
        $currentProjectPath = $projectFile.DirectoryName+"\"
        Write-Host "----Project found: "  $projectFile.Name

        $nm = New-Object -TypeName System.Xml.XmlNamespaceManager -ArgumentList $projectXmlDoc.NameTable
        $nm.AddNamespace('x', 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003')
        [System.Collections.ArrayList]$filesListedInProjectFile = $projectXmlDoc.SelectNodes('/x:Project/x:ItemGroup/*[self::x:Compile or self::x:Content or self::x:None]/@Include', $nm) | Select-Object Value

        CheckProjectIntegrity $dir $currentProjectPath $filesListedInProjectFile;
    }
    else { $dir.GetDirectories() | ForEach-Object { LookForProjectFile($_); } }
}

Function CheckProjectIntegrity([System.IO.DirectoryInfo] $dir,[string] $currentProjectPath,  [System.Collections.ArrayList] $filesListedInProjectFile ){
    $relativeDir = $dir.FullName -replace [regex]::Escape($currentProjectPath)
    $relativeDir = $relativeDir +"\"
    #check if folder is bin obj or something
    if ($relativeDir -match '(bin\\|obj\\).*') { return }

    $dir.GetFiles()  | ForEach-Object {
        $relativeProjectFile = $_.FullName -replace [regex]::Escape($currentProjectPath)
        $match = $false
        if(DoWeHaveToLookUpForThisFile($relativeProjectFile))
        {
            $idx = 0
            foreach($file in $filesListedInProjectFile)
            {
                if($relativeProjectFile.ToLower().Trim() -eq $file.Value.ToLower().Trim()){
                    $match = $true
                    break
                }
                $idx++
            }
            if (-not($match))
            {
                Write-Host "Missing file reference: " $relativeProjectFile -ForegroundColor Red
            }
            else
            {
                $filesListedInProjectFile.RemoveAt($idx)
            }
        }
    }
    #lookup in sub directories
    $dir.GetDirectories() | ForEach-Object { CheckProjectIntegrity $_ $currentProjectPath $filesListedInProjectFile }
}

Function DoWeHaveToLookUpForThisFile($filename)
{
    #check file extensions
    if ($filename -match '^.*\.(user|csproj|aps|pch|vspscc|vssscc|ncb|suo|tlb|tlh|bak|log|lib|sdf)$') { return $false }
    return $true    
}

Write-Host '######## Checking for missing references to files started ##############'
if($SolutionFile){
    [System.IO.FileInfo] $file = [System.IO.FileInfo] $SolutionFile
    $Directory = $file.Directory
}
LookForProjectFile($Directory)
Write-Host '######## Checking for missing references to files ends ##############'

Example usage (should be run from the NuGet console):

./FindProjectMissingFiles.ps1 -s $dte.Solution.FileName