Remove Application Files in Visual Studio

Question

I have a WPF project in Visual studio, and suddenly Microsoft.IdentityModel.dll has been included in Application Files. I don't know where it comes from and how to remove it. I know I can set Publish Status to Exclude, but does anyone know why it is there? I have made a text search in all files included in the solution but I'm not able to find it anywhere:

Answer 1

it might be a dependent dll to any reference you added to a project . try removing the reference and check whether it is dependent or not .