Useful Developer Tools #9: Clean and Zip .NET projects from Finder

If you develop .NET projects, particularly in the Xamarin world, you might find yourself cleaning your projects (delete /bin and /obj folders) from time to time by hand. Especially, when you plan to send code to others as a compressed .zip file, you might want to remove those folders beforehand.

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The amazing Colby L. Williams created a Finder extension for macOS, that does exactly that for you. Simply right-click a folder and select Services -> Clean to get rid of all /bin and /obj folders of its descendants or Services -> Clean & Compress to do the same and zip it afterwards.

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