Remove an old namespace from a g.cs File?

Question

I previously had a subfolder in my WPF application project called "Controls". It contained a WPF user control. I decided to move that user control to my "Views" folder. Since the original folder was empty, I decided to delete it from the project.

Because the user control and folder is removed I receive a compilation error because the user control used the ProjectName.Folder namespace and now nothing references it. MainWindow.g.cs is what references ProjectName.Controls in a using statement.

I know that *.g.cs are generated by VS and can't be edited because it will be overwritten. What do I do to not allow that namespace to be written to the g.cs file? I tried cleaning my solution/project and rebuilding but nothing has worked.

Answer 1

I had a local reference to the Controls namespace in my Xaml code (MainWindow.xaml). I removed the reference, cleaned the project and produced a successful build.