Visual Studio Unload Project From Solution

In Visual Studio, you can “Unload” project from a solution.

It can be useful to unload a project from a solution while resolving circular dependencies between projects or conflicts with different versions of the .NET framework between projects.

In Visual Studio, the “Unload Project” option allows you to temporarily remove a project from the solution without deleting it from the disk. This can be useful when you want to reduce clutter in the Solution Explorer or when you don’t want to build or debug a specific project. When a project is unloaded, it is not built or included in the solution’s build process until it is reloaded. This can help improve the performance of the solution by reducing the number of projects that need to be built.

To ‘unload’ a project in Visual Studio means to temporarily disregard it from the solution that it’s in. So when you build the solution this project won’t be built, and any other projects in the solution that rely on it, will likely get build error(s). Unloading a project can speed up the build (if the project is one that isn’t really used by anything) and also any auto code analysis happening behind the scenes won’t have to scan that code. This could be Visual Studio’s own, or some other extension such as ReSharper.