What directories can I delete when I send someone my C# source code?

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I want to delete some folders from my Visual Studio source code to make it smaller to download the source code...

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Release or Debug but sometimes that's problematic

Posted 3-Feb-17 5:29am

john1990_1

Updated 3-Feb-17 8:18am

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Philippe Mori 3-Feb-17 16:02pm

A good start is to do "Clean" your solution for each configuration.

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You should also delete or mask the sensitive information (server name, username, password, etc...) in your configuration file.

Posted 3-Feb-17 8:18am

Bryian Tan

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john1990_1 4-Feb-17 4:48am

How?

Bryian Tan 4-Feb-17 10:03am

Do you have username, password, server name hardcoded in the web.cofig? Basically, anything that you don't want to share with other people. You should delete or mask it with ***. Then provide instruction to the user to update the web.config using their own username and password, server name, etc...

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Chris Maunder · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-03T05:32:00

Solution 1

Anything auto-generated at build time - mostly meaning the bin and obj directories are OK to delete if you haven't added anything to those directories yourself, but it may depend on the project type.

Posted 3-Feb-17 5:32am

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