Is your VS2005 project "clean"?

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

.NET

When I tried to upgrade a WinForm project integrating Microsoft OWC from Sept CTP to RTM recently, I faced an error that some assemblies are missing, like the "MSDATASRC 8.0.. blah blah".

I'm pretty sure I clean all CTP products properly and then install the RTM of VS2005. Therefore, I guess there are something wrong in the registration of the OWC component. I uninstall the component and then manually install it. It works. The component is visible in my toolbox and I'm able to drag & drop the control on my WinForm:

Therefore, I listed out my un/re-install/register procedures and informed my colleagues. Ouch... No luck, all of the errors appear in his machine... I have no idea but later, he can compile the project successuflly in VS2005 RTM by clicking 1 button! The magic is... the "Clean" button when right-clicking the project name in Solution Explorer.

I can't search any useful information about the use of this option on MSDN site... What's the actual use of this mysterious Clean option?

Colt Kwong

5 Comments

Had same issue with interop referencing MSDATASRC 8.0.0, couldn't find that assembly as well. Fixed the issue by manually redoing that iterop and referencing it in the project.

Serge - Wednesday, November 16, 2005 3:56:00 PM

Hey Serge,

I did exactly the same routine as you, but my colleague's approach (Clean option) seems to be more elegant and proper :)

Colt - Wednesday, November 16, 2005 3:59:00 PM

The clean option removes all the build and referenced assemblies from your project's bin and obj folder, forcing a rebuilding and re-referencing of everything. It's like a clean task that many people have been using with NAnt builds.

Brian Scott - Wednesday, November 16, 2005 4:21:00 PM

Nice. In fishing through to the asp.net forum entry, it looks like this is similar to a problem we had. We updated to RTM code, reloaded the projects into VSS and we were able to get it to work again.

Wallym - Wednesday, November 16, 2005 5:20:00 PM

And how does that mean? I do not understand anything.

Jason - Wednesday, March 28, 2012 5:20:49 PM

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