When compiling, garbage directories are generated.

Question

In WinForms and C#, in some projects and not in others, when compiling, some directories and dlls are generated. I don't want the directories to be generated.

I would also like to know if it is possible to not generate the files in the obj directory or at least delete them once compiled.

Answer 1

Hello @zequion,

You can try to add following line into your project file(.csproj), delete the project cache(bin, obj folders) and rebuild your project to limit the generation of those "language" folders.

<SatelliteResourceLanguages>en-US</SatelliteResourceLanguages>

The project file(.csproj) can be opened by right-clicking your project => Unload Project => right-clicking it again => Edit Project File. After you modify the project file, remember to right-click the project again and select Reload Project.

This line <SatelliteResourceLanguages>en-US</SatelliteResourceLanguages> should be added in <PropertyGroup></PropertyGroup>, for example:

<PropertyGroup>
  <SatelliteResourceLanguages>en-US</SatelliteResourceLanguages>
</PropertyGroup>

For more details, kindly see this document:

SatelliteResourceLanguages

For deleting those .dll files, you can add a post-build event. Right-click your project => Properties => select Build => Events => in "Post-build event" box => type command like del "C:\XXXX\XXXX\*.dll". * is a wildcard character.

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Update1:

It’s not possible to limit the generation of the obj directory.

Chaning the output directory to an intermediate/temp directory and delete the temp folder later may be a choice.

Related document: To set the intermediate output directory for a project(.NET projects)

and commands:

`rd /s /q path`, `rmdir /s /q path`

Sincerely,

Tianyu

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Answer 2

I have cleaned the directories and now, without adding anything, the fewer directories no longer appear in a project. I have added that line to .csproj and the directories continue to appear in all languages. Also, I don't want to limit it to a language but rather I don't want any directory to be generated.

Adding code in the post-compile event is useless because I don't want to delete the dlls but rather the directories.