1. I have created .NET 4.7.2 project and now refactoring and removing unused libraries.

2. By exe I mean successfully compiled exe file.

CodePudding user response：

Try To Delete Bin Folder From your Project Path

CodePudding user response：

There is a couple possibilities:

First: Compiled Exe didn't use the .dll at all as you said, so no piece of code will produce an exception because there's no call to that library inside it.

Second: Actually, the dll is somewhere in your computer registered and the exe is accessing it witouth any problem

I would bet on first possibility