How do I remove a Fakes assembly from a Visual Studio 2012 project?

Question

I've added a Fakes assembly to a Visual Studio 2012 C# unit test project, via the "Add Fakes Assembly" reference context menu option. What's the procedure to completely remove the Fakes assembly, i.e. to undo my adding it to the project?

Answer 1

As of Visual Studio 2012 RTM, to completely remove a Fakes assembly from a unit test project, you need to:

• Remove the .Fakes file from the Fakes folder in your project
• Remove the .* files from the (hidden) FakesAssemblies folder in your project
• Remove .Fakes assembly reference from the project

Answer 2

Just remove the references to the fake project assembly, after that it will underline the using statements that used the removed references with red, so that will help you completely remove any leftover reference. This of course is a manual approach, if you require a different approach use a 3rd party tool like resharper for example.