VS2012: Find all references to one ressource

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Hi,
maybe this is a silly question but I really have trouble with this. I recently changed the icon that my project and my forms use. I did not overwrite the old file but used a new one. Now I want to delete the old icon from my ressources but if I try to compile I get an error saying that the old icon could not be found. I double checked all the forms and also changed the project icon in the project settings but I can't get rid of this error.

Do you have any advice on how to find all references in my project to this ressource so they can be deleted entirely? What controls besides forms could I have missed that use an icon?

I also tried just searching the whole project for the icon's file name but it comes out empty.

I am using Visual Studio 2012 Professional for VB.NET

Any help would be great. Thank you in advance.

Posted 17-Aug-13 5:21am

Keex0r

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Richard MacCutchan 17-Aug-13 11:56am

The error message should also give you the name of the file holding the reference.

Keex0r 17-Aug-13 12:00pm

Unfortunately not. Only the error description and Project name fields have information. No direct source is available.

Richard MacCutchan 17-Aug-13 12:05pm

Edit your question and add the full exact text of the error message.

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Solution 2

You don't really need to "find all references to resource". Your tool is the compiler. You try to build it and the compiler will show you the line where the removed resource is used. Fix that one (or more, if you can see more). Try again. Repeat until all the references are eliminated.

—SA

Posted 17-Aug-13 6:30am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Keex0r 17-Aug-13 12:42pm

As I said in response to the first answer, the compiler only showed the error but no source for it. It probably wasn't a direct reference but the fact that the file was just linked to the project somehow.
The line that caused it in the vbproj file was: <content include="Resources\Logoino.ico">

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 17-Aug-13 13:11pm

How "no source"? It looks like something pathological. Well, learn the problem. If something is in the resource, find the name of resource in auto-generated VB.NET file, it should be the static property with the name close to the name of original file. Perform total search for this string in your solution.
—SA

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PIEBALDconsult · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-17T06:00:00

Solution 1

Project files are just XML, so I'd make a backup and then do a global replace in Notepad (or similar).
If I thought I'd need to do it many times I might write a utility to do it.
But always be sure to have a backup, project files can be fragile.

Posted 17-Aug-13 6:00am

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Keex0r 17-Aug-13 12:30pm

Thank you. It was a line buried somewhere in the project file. It works now.