Removing all unused references from a project in Visual Studio projects

Question

I just wondered if it possible within various Visual Studio versions to automatically remove all references from a project that were never been used?

In your answer,

Answer 1

In VB2008, it works this way:

Project>Add References

Then click on the Recent tab where you can see list of references used recently. Locate the one you do not want and delet it. Then you close without adding anything.

Answer 2

The Resharper extension will do this for you.

This extension supports Visual Studio 2005 through 2017.

While the compiler won't include unused assemblies, extraneous using statements and references slows down Visual Studio and Intellisense, since there's more code the tools have to consider.