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Inside a solution I'm building with Visual Studio 2019, I have a project for a console application. Inside of this project there are references to other files in different solutions, added with the:

Right click on the project → Add → Reference → Existing items → Add as link

option. I'm afraid that using the Remove option (right click on the files) will also delete the original files since I know that adding a file as link will make it as if the two files were literally the same file. How can I remove these references from the project without deleting the original files from the other solutions?

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First of all, you could just delete a link with delete, if it's a link it won't delete the original file. (right click, or press delete on the selected file in the solution explorer)

You could see if it's linked by it's icon:

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If you really like to do it manually, then you could edit the csproj file and remove the file with the Link attribute, e.g. remove this line:

<Compile Include="somewhere\MyClass.cs" Link="MyClass.cs" />

I'm afraid that using the Remove option (right click on the files) will also delete the original files

Sounds you need a version control system ;)

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