Remove unused Assembly References in Visual Studio Default Projects

The templates , available by default add some unused libraries. You can edit the default template to remove them.

The default templates are found in
X:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio version.0\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplates\Language\Windows\1033 folder.

For example, to remove Linq references in Windows Application , open the WindowsApplication.zip file and edit the WindowsApplication.csproj file to remove the Linq dll's.

NOTE: Please take backup of existing templates before you do anything.