I want to delete all bin and obj folders to force all projects to rebuild everything

Question

I work with multiple projects, and I want to recursively delete all folders with the name \'bin\' or \'obj\' that way I am sure that all projects will rebuild everything (so

Answer 1

I use a slight modification of Robert H which skips errors and prints the delete files. I usally also clear the .vs, _resharper and package folders:

Get-ChildItem -include bin,obj,packages,'_ReSharper.Caches','.vs' -Force -Recurse | foreach ($_) { remove-item $_.fullname -Force -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -Verbose}

Also worth to note is the git command which clears all changes inclusive ignored files and directories:

git clean -dfx

Answer 2

Is 'clean' not good enough? Note that you can call msbuild with /t:clean from the command-line.

Answer 3

This Works Fine For Me: start for /d /r . %%d in (bin,obj, ClientBin,Generated_Code) do @if exist "%%d" rd /s /q "%%d"

Answer 4

This worked for me:

for /d /r . %%d in (bin,obj) do @if exist "%%d" rd /s/q "%%d"

Based on this answer on superuser.com

Answer 5

I think you can right click to your solution/project and click "Clean" button.

As far as I remember it was working like that. I don't have my VS.NET with me now so can't test it.

Answer 6

To delete bin and obj before build add to project file:

<Target Name="BeforeBuild">
    <!-- Remove obj folder -->
    <RemoveDir Directories="$(BaseIntermediateOutputPath)" />
    <!-- Remove bin folder -->
    <RemoveDir Directories="$(BaseOutputPath)" />
</Target>

Here is article: How to remove bin and/or obj folder before the build or deploy