Christopher Hujanen’s .NET Developer Blog

If you are a fan of CleanSourcesPlus to clean up your Visual Studio build files, but have either had problems with it in a “modern” OS like Vista or just don’t like the command prompt popping up, I have a suggestion:  check out TreeTrim from Steve Dunn.

It adds a right click menu option to your selected folder in Windows Explorer to clean up your source code folder and it works quickly and silently.  By default it adds two menu choices:

The Clean source code works “out of the box” but the second one to clean, zip and email a working copy needs to be configured via its XML configuration file.  If you are like me and don’t email source code, then you can modify your registry to change or remove the menu option.  The registry key is located here:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\Clean, zip, and email a working copy of source code

I just removed that menu option on my system but the utility has a plugin model which allows you to customize commands that match your workflow.  Kudos to Steve Dunn!