I have imported images through the visual studio designer to the projects resource file. Some of these images are no longer used and I want to remove them.
However, I've tried to remove the resource images before by deleting the image file through the solution explorer and then removing the corresponding <data> element from the .resx file. However, this causes the VS designer to have a panic attack and start throwing exceptions saying it can't find the files I've just removed even though they are not referenced anywhere.
What is the a proper way of deleting images from the resource file?
You should select the resource in the resource grid and click Remove Resource, as described in this MSDN article.