[RESOLVED] [2008] How can you delete Resources without getting resx errors?

[chris128]

This has always happened to me in both VS 2005 Pro and VS 2008 Express.
Say I have imported an image into my solution and it shows up in the solution explorer under resources, I later decide I dont want that image but if I just right click -> delete the resource from the solution explorer window I get resx errors next time I try to build/debug my app. Usually stating that it could not find a file, obviously the one I just deleted.

I mean yeah I can go in and hack bits out of the resources.resx file until it works but surely I shoudnt have to do this...

So how should I be doing this?

EDIT: Shortly after editing the resx file to remove the references to non existent files, VS has decided to completely reset my main menustrip back to defaults... empty.
#%@!

EDIT EDIT: Oh and my status strip too!


Cheers
Chris

[chris128]

bump surely im not the only person on here that needs to occasionally delete an imported image from the resources.resx file?

[obi1kenobi]

Yes, I encountered the same problem some time ago and I didn't get any useful answers. The best thing I could come up with is to first delete the resource from the Resources tab, then select Exclude from project in the Solution explorer and then delete the file. I think it worked for me.

[stanav]

Yes, I encountered the same problem some time ago and I didn't get any useful answers. The best thing I could come up with is to first delete the resource from the Resources tab, then select Exclude from project in the Solution explorer and then delete the file. I think it worked for me.

Yeah, that's what I do too. Don't know of any other easier way...

[chris128]

Really? I'm shocked that Visual Studio is able to create controls and write event handlers for you without breaking a sweat but it cannot just delete 3 lines from a resx file when you delete something from your solution... seems very odd to me.

[obi1kenobi]

Yes, it does, doesn't it? Perhaps we should send Microsoft a comment on that...

[chris128]

Pfft I've given up on trying to send feedback to Microsoft after my experiences with the Media Player 11 BETA... I found so many little problems with it that I would of liked to inform them of but for the life of me could not find any way to actually send them feedback about this. There was no option within the program itself and I couldnt find anything on the website either. I emailed one MS address and was just told that they did not have anything to do with media player..
Oh and half of the bugs werent even fixed in the final release version..

[chris128]

Just to help people who read this in the future, here's what I found to be a solution to this problem:
go into your project settings (Double click 'My Project' in Solution Explorer) and then on the left you will see some tabs, of course a lot of us are used to using the 'Compile' and 'Settings' tab but I noticed that there is also one named 'Resources'. If you go into here, you can see all images etc that are attached to your project and just click on them, then click the Remove button at the top to remove them. Voila, no errors!

[stanav]

Just to help people who read this in the future, here's what I found to be a solution to this problem:
go into your project settings (Double click 'My Project' in Solution Explorer) and then on the left you will see some tabs, of course a lot of us are used to using the 'Compile' and 'Settings' tab but I noticed that there is also one named 'Resources'. If you go into here, you can see all images etc that are attached to your project and just click on them, then click the Remove button at the top to remove them. Voila, no errors!

That's the same method given by Obi1 in post # 3. After you remove a resource, you still need to manually delete it from your project folder.

[chris128]

Oh right, sorry I didnt realise he meant the resources tab in project settings, I thought he meant just remove it from the resources folder in solution explorer.
In that case - thanks Obi1

[obi1kenobi]

Heh no prob