删除引用时 Visual Studio 项目无法编译，但生成的 EXE 文件在没有相同 DLL 的情况下运行

Question

1. I have created .NET 4.7.2 project and now refactoring and removing unused libraries.

2. By exe I mean successfully compiled exe file.

Answer 1

Try To Delete Bin Folder From your Project Path

Answer 2

There is a couple possibilities:

First: Compiled Exe didn't use the.dll at all as you said, so no piece of code will produce an exception because there's no call to that library inside it.

Second: Actually, the dll is somewhere in your computer (on an obscure folder, but registered) and the exe is accessing it witouth any problem

I would bet on first possibility