dotnet-remove-reference(1)

✨ dotnet-remove-reference ✨

okay bestie, welcome to dotnet-remove-reference(1) — yes that's the whole manual name, yes it's a mouthful, and yes I'm gonna walk you through it like we're texting at 1am 🫶

This article applies to: ✔️ .NET Core 3.1 SDK and later versions

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🌸 NAME 🌸

dotnet-remove-reference — removes project-to-project (P2P) references. that's it. that's the job. she's a deleter, not a builder 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

dotnet remove [<PROJECT>] reference [-f|--framework <FRAMEWORK>]
     <PROJECT_REFERENCES>

dotnet remove reference -h|--help

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the dotnet remove reference command is literally the convenient little shortcut for taking project references out of a project. no cap, it's just the ✨ convenient option ✨ to remove project references from a project. nothing more, nothing less, and she does it beautifully 😭

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• PROJECT — the target project file, bestie. and here's the chill part: if you don't specify one, the command goes looking for one in the current directory all by itself. independent queen 🔥
• PROJECT_REFERENCES — the project-to-project (P2P) references you want GONE. you can list one of them, or multiple, go off 👑 and plot twist: glob patterns (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glob_(programming)) are supported on Unix/Linux based terminals. so you can be lazy and it still works. iconic.

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -? | -h | --help — prints out a description of how to use the command. your little "help me" button, no judgement 🌈
• -f | --framework <FRAMEWORK> — removes the reference only when targeting a specific framework, using the TFM format. like, only that framework's reference gets touched. very targeted, very demure 🎀

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💅 EXAMPLES 💅

1. remove a project reference from the specified project:

dotnet remove app/app.csproj reference lib/lib.csproj

2. remove multiple project references from the project in the current directory:

dotnet remove reference lib1/lib1.csproj lib2/lib2.csproj

3. remove multiple project references using a glob pattern on Unix/Linux:

dotnet remove app/app.csproj reference **/*.csproj`

ngl that last one has a stray trailing backtick sitting there in the original. it's giving typo energy 💀 but I'm keeping it exactly as written because I do not touch the facts, ever. periodt.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

(no extra references in the original, bestie — this section is just vibing quietly 🙈)

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okay that's the whole page, you ate it, go remove some references 🦋💜

— sourced from .NET Documentation, page dated 2024-10-02, filed under dotnet-remove-reference(1). main character manual energy, fr fr 👑✨