VS2010 - delete files that are not in the solution

Question

I need to delete files (basically .cs and .cshtml) that were removed from the solution in Visual Studio 2010 but were not deleted from the file system. I know that these files are displayed if I select the "Show all files" option, however I don’t want to search them manually because it will take a lot of time and will be error prone.

Is there a way to list these files? I am using Visual Studio 2010 and Resharper 6.1 (maybe Resharper has an option that can do this).

Answer 1

I wrote a PowerShell script based on @jovball's answer. The main difference is that mine will accept the .sln file and delete all files excluded from all projects as part of this solution.

Here is the version of the script at the time of posting this answer. But please check here for the latest version.

<# .SYNOPSIS Find all files excluded from a Visual Studio solution with options to delete. .DESCRIPTION Finds all excluded files in all projects in the provided Visual Studio solution with options to delete the files. .PARAMETER Solution The path to the .sln file .PARAMETER VsVersion The Visual Studio version (10, 11, 12) (Used to locate the tf.exe file) .PARAMETER DeleteFromTfs Mark files as pending deletion in TFS .PARAMETER DeleteFromDisk Delete the files directly from the disk #> [CmdletBinding()] param( [Parameter(Position=0, Mandatory=$true)] [string]$Solution, [Parameter(Mandatory=$false)] [ValidateRange(10,12)] [int] $VsVersion = 12, [switch]$DeleteFromDisk, [switch]$DeleteFromTfs ) $ErrorActionPreference = "Stop" $tfPath = "${env:ProgramFiles(X86)}\Microsoft Visual Studio $VsVersion.0\Common7\IDE\TF.exe" $solutionDir = Split-Path $Solution | % { (Resolve-Path $_).Path } $projects = Select-String -Path $Solution -Pattern 'Project.*"(?<file>.*\.csproj)".*' ` | % { $_.Matches[0].Groups[1].Value } ` | % { Join-Path $solutionDir $_ } $excluded = $projects | % { $projectDir = Split-Path $_ $projectFiles = Select-String -Path $_ -Pattern '<(Compile|None|Content|EmbeddedResource) Include="(.*)".*' ` | % { $_.Matches[0].Groups[2].Value } ` | % { Join-Path $projectDir $_ } $diskFiles = Get-ChildItem -Path $projectDir -Recurse ` | ? { !$_.PSIsContainer } ` | % { $_.FullName } ` | ? { $_ -notmatch "\\obj\\|\\bin\\|\\logs\\|\.user|\.*proj|App_Configuration\\|App_Data\\" } (compare-object $diskFiles $projectFiles -PassThru) | Where { $_.SideIndicator -eq '<=' } } Write-Host "Found" $excluded.count "excluded files" if ($DeleteFromTfs) { Write-Host "Marking excluded files as deleted in TFS..." $excluded | % { [Array]$arguments = @("delete", "`"$_`"") & "$tfPath" $arguments } } elseif($DeleteFromDisk) { Write-Host "Deleting excluded files from disk..." $excluded | % { Remove-Item -Path $_ -Force -Verbose} } else { Write-Host "Neither DeleteFromTfs or DeleteFromDisk was specified. Listing excluded files only..." $excluded }