Delete deleted files from visual studio solution

Question

Is it possible in the Visual Studio 2010 SDK to delete a file that does not exist on the disk. I tried using the VCProject.RemoveReference and VCProject.RemoveFile methods , but both require the object to be bound to be passed. The problem that I find is that I cannot create a file object from a file that does not exist on disk. Is there any way to remove the link from the project?