posted on Monday, December 13, 2004 1:29 PM
by
davidboschmans
Clean Sources
[Via Joel Ross] Clean Sources is a little tool that adds an explorer shell menu to folders. Clicking "Clean Sources" allows you to clean your source directory: it recursively deletes the contents of the bin, obj and setup folders.
This is useful if you want to remove all unnecessary files from your projects before sharing it with others, or when adding it to your sourcecontrol system.
On a recent project a co-worker, Roy Dictus, created a similar tool which - besides deleting the bin and obj folders - also deleted all SourceSafe related files (*.scc, *.vsscc, ...) from the .NET solution and projects we were working on. We used this tool to clean up the projects before adding them to the release branch of our sourcecontrol system. What about merging the functionality of both tools?
[Updated] Roy decided to make this utility tool, which I mentioned above, freely available for download. Get Cleanup 1.5 for Visual Studio.Net 2003 Solutions here. Thanks Roy!