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My Visual Studio 2013 solution has a project "Test". I can rename it in solution explorer, but I also want to rename the project folder in disk and also reflect the change in Source Control(TFS). How can I easily do this?
Thank you
#CodeCaster, Thank you. Based on your advice, I have done some quick experiment, and worked it out. First step is rename the folder name in TFS; the new folder will appear in local workspace and all contents of the folder moved to this new folder. The old folder stays there with rest content which not belong to source control. You can delete it manually.
Or
Using TFS Power Tools to rename from Explorer.
I followed those steps to preserve the version history of the files inside of TFS:
Rename/move project file (.csproj) in source control explorer in VS (alternatively, this also works from within VS Solution explorer, simply select "rename")
Rename/move project folder in source control explorer in VS
now the project should be unavailable in VS, solution also gets closed
remove project from VS
add project (new path) to VS
fix project references in other projects
adjust namespaces if desired
adjust assembly name and default namespace in project settings
Don't know of an easier way. Was searching for this myself, and this should be the way to go.
I think you can rename it from the TFS Database.
Try going into tbl_Project of the Tfs_DefaultCollection Database, which you can find on the SQL Server Instance used by tfs. You can know which one is that by going into the TFS Console, click on Application Tier, then find the details of the Server under the Data Tier Summary. Run an update query against the project you want to rename.. I haven't tested this but just assuming it should work (some educated guess)..
I am using TFS 2015 Express and rename project is grayed out.
You can still rename the project using the TFS Site for the project.
Here is a link that shows how to do it.
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/setup-admin/rename-team-project
I was facing a similar issue while trying to rename a folder in Visual Studio 2015.This is what I tried.
Right click on the project file
Open with Notepad
This will generate your current solution file
Change the occurences of your prev file name. (Find and Replace with the desired name)
Save it and close
Change solution explorer name and rename the folder to your desired name.
This should work.
Let's assume we're working on a project called MyProject.
I'd like to be able to change its name to MyProject2 AND have its folder name also renamed to MyProject2.
Is this possible from Visual Studio? If not, how to make this happen "outside" it?
Rename your project to your new name. It will change the .csproj file automatically which in 2010 is the name of the project. Close Visual Studio. Rename the directory.
Open your solution file to change directory now. Your solution file will point to the new project but will reference the wrong directory.
Before:
Project("{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}") = "Stackoverflow_4560662_Rename", "Stackoverflow_4560662\Stackoverflow_4560662_Rename.csproj", "{7CCD10BF-48BA-44E2-B071-D4ED8067ACA1}"
After
Project("{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}") = "Stackoverflow_4560662_Rename", "Stackoverflow_4560662_Rename\Stackoverflow_4560662_Rename.csproj", "{7CCD10BF-48BA-44E2-B071-D4ED8067ACA1}"
Notice the two parts
"Stackoverflow_4560662\Stackoverflow_4560662_Rename.csproj" becomes
"Stackoverflow_4560662_Rename\Stackoverflow_4560662_Rename.csproj"
This is the only way I've been able to rename a directory for a project. I hope someone finds a better answer.
Following may be one solution
Close the solution.
Rename the folders outside Visual Studio.
Open the solution, ignoring the warnings.
Go through all unavailable projects.
Set the property 'File Path' to the new location.
Reload the project.
In case you didn't rename the project, rename it (F2).
Check answer
How do I rename a Project Folder from within Visual Studio?
I'm pretty much a novice at this stuff but I had the same issue, my resolution was to just copy and paste my code into a new project and save it using the new name I needed. Probably not the best method but it's simple and it works.
Not sure if this helps anybody but all I did was rename the solution and associated folders etc.
Unfortunately when you open it says it can't find your project(s).
To get around this I opened the solution itself in a text editor (notepad++) and renamed where it finds the Project . . . and it works.
Andy
Assuming you're talking about a single VB.NET project in a solution.
AFAIK, You're not supposed to rename the 'My Project' folder, that's the VS default name for all VB.NET project.
Just select the project/solution in VS Solution Explorer and Click F2 to simply rename it.
I am using Visual Basic 2010 Express.
I tried to copy project folder and rename it to duplicate one of my project. But it acts like my old project. I tried change root namespace and assembly name but no luck.
How can I duplicate my whole project like "save as"?
Ctrl+C Ctrl+V the whole project folder.
After that try taking a look at the SLN file and see if the projects are being referenced with absolute paths.
I am working in a Web Project in Visual Studio 2008. When I hit F12 (or right-click and select Go To Definition) Visual Studio is consistently going to the Metadata file instead of going to the source.
Some Points:
All the source code is C#, there is no VB.Net
All the projects are in the same solution
Everything is a project reference as opposed to a file reference (checked and double-checked)
I have tried the Clean/Rebuild Solution approach (even to the point of clearing out the Temp directory, Temporary ASP.NET Files directory, etc).
Has anyone else seen this behavior and/or know how to fix it?
Well, another developer found the answer. The specific project we had an issue with was originally added as a file reference, then removed and added as a Project Reference. Visual Studio however, kept both in the csproj file for the web site, causing the issue. He went in and manually edited the csproj file to remove the file reference to the problem project and all is fixed now
It happens when you don't add reference as a project but point to a dll or exe using Browse tab in Add Reference dialog. If you add reference using Projects tab you should go directly to the source code when you select Go To Definition.
However, if you install ReSharper, you'll go to source code even if you added your reference to a dll/exe using Browse tab.
Looks like it needs to be setup in Resharper as well. My Visual Studio does not navigate to .NET Framework source code until I enable it in Resharper.
1. close your solution.
2. delete hidden <name of the solution>.suo file in folder where your solution's <name of the solution>.sln file exists.
3. open your solution.
4. rebuild your solution.
For those using VS 2017 (I'm at version 15.3.4 at this moment) here are the simple steps:
Open your solution in Windows Explorer and close down Visual Studio
In the explorer menu, select View and ensure that the "Hidden items" checkbox is marked
Navigate to the subfolder .vs\[your solution name]\v15
Delete the .suo file
Restart VS and build your solution
That fixed it for me: F12 opened the actual source file, not the "from metadata" version.
Visual studio often suffer from a problem of going to metadata rather than your project if you shift location where you are building the project, ie you may have several versions to test things out.
Simply delete the reference and immediately add it back and everything will be sorted out.
The marked solution does not always work. You must make sure that the referenced project GUID in the project files is the correct GUID for the project you are trying to reference. Visual Studio does allow them to get out of synch in some circumstances. You can get the project GUID from the project file with a text editor.
So if project A reference project B. Open up project B.csproj in text editor, copy out project GUID from the tag. Then open up project A.csproj in text editor, and make sure that you are using the correct GUID. Search for project name "B" in this case. It should be at . Replace the GUID in the tag with the correct one. Save and reload.
Of course also make sure file based references to your projects are removed. You only want project references.
I've kill all VS instances, deleted the SUO, launch sln and it worked for me...
Remove the reference dll, Build (will get errors), ADD THE reference (you removed) then build again ... F12 on your function should then work (worked for me).
#1
Check "View - Object Browser" and if you see more than one assembly with the same name - that's why your getting this error.
For us it was a bug in VS 2019:
If you have ASP.NET "Razor helpers" in App_Code folder the Visual Studio 2019 interprets that as a different assembly but with the same name, that hides the actual assembly.
There's no fix for that other than rewrite those helpers to partial views or HTML helpers (you will have to do that anyway if you plan migrating to .NET Core).
See this workaround on MS's site and please upvote the bug there so MS fixes it
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/solutions/1008795/view.html (please upvote)
#2
Another reason why same assembly can be loaded twice in the object browser is if you have a unit-test project that starts iis-express process and never kills it properly.
I figured out how to solve my problem from this post, maybe it will also work for some of you.
I followed these steps:
Close the solution.
Delete the intellisense database file for the solution: .ncb
Open the solution.
Rebuild the solution.
(I believe either step 3 or 4 regenerates the intellisense database file when it is missing)
Intellisense, "go to defintion" and "find all references" should be working again.
In my case, (using Visual Studio Professional 2015), when I had disabled the XAML designer, the F12 stopped working.
As soon as I revert the changes, and restart Visual Studio, the F12 worked again.
Checked the pattern multiple times to confirm and then posted. Hope it helps someone.
Symptom:
Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate was repeatedly failing to find references to functions, #defines, includes, etc when using the "Go To Definition" or "Go To Declaration" or "Find All References" features - oddly Intellisense was working.
Fix:
Close Visual Studio
Delete (rename if you want to be conservative) the solution .sdf file
Reopen Visual Studio
The .sdf file will automatically be rebuilt by parsing the include files in your solution
For me, the GUID solution didn't work and I couldn't find my .ncb file. (Or maybe I'm lazy and didn't look hard enough, but that's not important.) Rebuilding and restarting visual studio didn't help either.
What I did was close visual studio and delete the .dll and .pdb being referenced in the top of the Meta Data file that my intellisense kept linking to. In my case it meant I deleted my .dll and it's .pdb file from Utilities/bin/Release. (Utilities is the name of the .dll project I was having issues with.) Then I restarted visual studio and rebuilt the .dll then the whole solution. No more problems!
Just found another cause. I upgraded my web project to 4.0 but left the class libraries at 2.0. At that point all the class libraries in my solution were treated as file references from my web project. Might help someone else...
I faced the same issue and one of colleagues gave me the following solution and it worked!
If none of the above works for you,
Remove all the references and add them back (make sure the path is
correct)
Go to Solution properties, and recheck the Project
Dependencies of all projects. Make sure the project that you'll be
using is added as a dependent in the project that you are working
on.
I did all suggested steps but nothing has been changed then
finally
right click and add reference menu, project tab
simply unselected the reference project.
save the solution.
select the same project.
Rebuild the solution.
Problem sorted. Hope this will help to some one.
Below steps worked for me.
Go to .csproj file
Open it in Notepad Go to line where dll is referred.<Reference Include="">
Delete the line
<SpecificVersion>False</SpecificVersion>
or
<SpecificVersion>True</SpecificVersion>
After deleting dll files from Visual Studio first and adding them back manually from Solution Explorer --> Website --> Add --> Reference and enabling 32-bit Applications in IIS fixed it for me.
VS2017 VB.Net Windows 10 Pro - I use an assembly names "SharedCollection" which includes a VB Module named MyGlobals. One of the globals is a FileVersion. References showed metadata and the Windows Service that referenced it had an outdated setting. I had tried some of the SUO remedies above and none of them worked.
This Worked
I deleted and recreated the project reference for ShareCollection in References.
click on web site menu from VS.
Add reference...
Click on project tab from dialog box
Select ddl
Click on ok button
In my case, I had just recently changed
<mvcBuildViews>
to "true" in my site's .csproj file (to find compile errors in my Razor view files: http://forums.asp.net/t/1909113.aspx?How+to+have+Visual+Studio+2012+returned+compile+errors+on+razor+syntax+error+in+asp+net+web+page+2+ ), and when I then built I was getting errors from my within my site's /obj/Debug/ directory. From any of those files (which were out-of-date), right-clicking and selecting "Go To Definition" would give me the [metadata] version.
So for me, none of the solutions here worked, because I wasn't starting from a file that was actually in my project. Deleted that entire /obj/Debug/ directory, the errors went away, and from any normal file I can correctly use Go To Definition.
I just ran into this problem on VS 2013. Something I could (did?) not isolate was changing the GUID in the CSPROJ file. Since the CSPROJ files are checked into SVN, I could not simply change the GUID on my local dev. Instead, I was constantly SVN reverting the local change each time it happened.
First, I had to solve the changing GUID problem.
Revert the CSPROJ to the checked-in version.
Open the CSPROJ via a text editor, NOT VS.
Extract value from the pristine CSPROJ file.
{B1234567-5123-4AAE-FE43-8465767788ED}
Open the SLN file via a text editor, NOT VS.
Locate the Project reference in the solution.
Project("{FAE12345-3210-1357-B3EB-00CA4F396F7C}") = "Some.Project", "....\assemblies\Some.Project\Some.Project.csproj", "{B7654321-5321-4AAE-FE3D-ED20900088ED}"
EndProject
The first GUID listed is the Solution GUID. For every project referenced in your SLN, you should see this value repeated at the first argument. The GUID following the .csproj is the one you want to replace with the pristine GUID.
This should solve the first problem, but the "Go to Definition" landing in meta data is not solved. In our SLN file, there is a master project (our web site), so its entry in the SLN file should contain a ProjectSection entry with multiple GUID values. Here is an example:
ProjectSection(ProjectDependencies) = postProject
{AC50D230-24C4-4DCA-BAAD-355E6AF5EFBD} = {AC50D230-24C4-4DCA-BAAD-355E6AF5EFBD}
EndProjectSection
Notice the missing GUID in this collection is the one from my pristine project.
Add the missing GUID as the last entry between ProjectSection and EndProjectSection. The format appears to be per-line, and it is {GUID} = {GUID}.
Save the file.
Open your solution.
Right-click a reference in the newly-added project and "Go to Definition."
I had a circular reference between the two projects involved (which is a no-no). Had to restructure my code a bit in order to solve it as both projects were truly dependant on each other. Removing one of the references solved the intellisense problem. It was logically flawed and I probably wouldn't have noticed without this error!
This one worked for me:
Right click the dll in the reference folder in your solution
explorer
Remove dll file
Right click the Reference folder, then
Add reference to the dll file again
This can happen if you're trying to jump to the definition in a project that has been unloaded (Unavailable). Right-click the unloaded project and select "Reload Project".
I modified the .csproj file and in the Reference -> HinPath changed obj to bin and it solved the problem.
I had a variation of this issue, where when I loaded my solution my referencing project had errors until I compiled the project it was referencing. At that point the errors disappeared but F12 took me to metadata.
The issue was a dependency in the project being referenced that conflicted with a dependency in the referencing project. I manually removed dependencies from the project being referenced until one of them resolved the errors in the referencing project. After that I was able to F12 to the actual code, and the project would load without errors.
If anyone knows exactly why this happens I'm interested to know in the comments.
This little trick solved it for me - unload the referencing project from the solution and then just reload it
Best guess is that you don't have debug information. Maybe you have multiple copies of your assembly on disk and it doesn't have the .pdb file with it.
Do a search for your assembly names from your projects and delete them all and rebuild.
My current solution for renaming the project folder is:
Remove the project from the solution.
Rename the folder outside Visual Studio.
Re-add the project to the solution.
Is there a better way?
TFS users: If you are using source control that requires you to warn it before your rename files/folders then look at this answer instead which covers the extra steps required.
To rename a project's folder, file (.*proj) and display name in Visual Studio:
Close the solution.
Rename the folder(s) outside Visual Studio. (Rename in TFS if using source control)
Open the solution, ignoring the warnings (answer "no" if asked to load a project from source control).
Go through all the unavailable projects and...
Open the properties window for the project (highlight the project and press Alt+Enter or F4, or right-click > properties).
Set the property 'File Path' to the new location.
If the property is not editable (as in Visual Studio 2012), then open the .sln file directly in another editor such as Notepad++ and update the paths there instead. (You may need to check-out the solution first in TFS, etc.)
Reload the project - right-click > reload project.
Change the display name of the project, by highlighting it and pressing F2, or right-click > rename.
Note: Other suggested solutions that involve removing and then re-adding the project to the solution will break project references.
If you perform these steps then you might also consider renaming the following to match:
Assembly
Default/Root Namespace
Namespace of existing files (use the refactor tools in Visual Studio or ReSharper's inconsistent namespaces tool)
Also consider modifying the values of the following assembly attributes:
AssemblyProductAttribute
AssemblyDescriptionAttribute
AssemblyTitleAttribute
This is straightforward in Visual Studio 2015 (possibly works in older versions)
In Solution Explorer, right click on Main solution → Rename
In Solution Explorer, right click on project (under solution) → Rename
In Solution Explorer, double click, or right click on Properties → goto Application Tab, rename Assembly name and Default namespace to match.
If you wish to also rename the namespace, open one of your class files. Right click the namespace → Rename.... This should search and replace all references to your namespace throughout the project.
Close the project → rename the project folder.
Edit the .sln file in Notepad, and change the path to the csproj, i.e., fu\bar.csproj → bar\bar.csproj.
There is another way doing this, using the *.sol, *csproj files.
Open your solution file.
Search for the *.csproj you would like to change.
It will be like this (relative to the *.sol file):
Project("{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}") = "Shani.Commands.Impl", "Shani.Commands.Impl\Shani.Commands.Impl.csproj", "{747CFA4B-FC83-419A-858E-5E2DE2B948EE}"
And just change the first part to the new diretory for example:
Impl\Shani.Commands.Impl\Shani.Commands.Impl.csproj
Of course, don't forget to move the whole project to that directory.
Man, have I struggled with this. Unfortunately there isn't a one click solution in Visual Studio, but if you're running Visual Studio 2012 and your project is under source control with Team Foundation Server, here is how I got it to work, while keeping the source history:
(Make sure you read #mjv's comment below, as he notes that you can skip step 5-10)
Make sure you have checked in all changes, so you have no pending changes.
Remove the project from the solution, by right clicking and selecting Remove.
Now, in Windows Explorer, rename the project folder.
Go back to Visual Studio, and in Solution Explorer, right click the solution and choose Add -> Existing project. Select the project file for the project you removed in step 2, which should be located in the renamed folder.
Now the project is back in the solution, but the project doesn't seem to be added to source control. To fix that, open Source Control Explorer.
Find the project folder in Source Control Explorer, that corresponds with the project folder on your disk, that you renamed in step 3.
Rename the folder in Source Control Explorer, so it has the same name as the project folder on disk.
Now take a look at your pending changes. You should have changes to the solution file and a rename operation on the project folder.
Do a rebuild and make sure everything compiles correctly. If you had inter-project references to the project you renamed, you need to add them again to the individual projects that referenced it.
You should be all set now. Go and check everything in.
The above guide worked for me. If it doesn't work for you, try and delete your local solution completely, and remove the folder mapping in your workspace. Restart Visual Studio just in case. Make sure you actually deleted the whole solution from your computer. Now readd the solution mapping to your workspace and get the latest version. Now try the above steps. The same applies if something goes wrong while following the above steps. Just delete your solution locally and get the latest source, and you'll have a clean slate to work with.
If you're still having problems, make sure that you haven't changed anything manually in the solution file, or trying other 'tricks' before trying the above steps. If you have changed something and checked it in, you might want to consider doing a rollback to the point just before you started messing with the renaming of the project.
Of course, you'd also want to rename the project itself, in Solution Explorer. You can do this before the steps above, but in that case, make sure you check in that change before applying the steps above. You can also do it afterwards, but make sure you follow all the steps above first, and check in your changes before trying to rename the project name in Solution Explorer. I don't recommend trying to mix the above steps with a rename of the project name in Solution Explorer. It might work though, but I would recommand doing it in 2 separate changesets.
Currently, no. Well, actually you can click the broken project node and in the properties pane look for the property 'Path', click the small browse icon, and select the new path.
Voilà :)
The simpler solution is the following:
Right-click the project and rename it.
(optional) Open the project’s property settings and modify the assembly name (and optionally the default namespace) to use the new project name.
(optional) Select the namespace name in a source file, right click and select Refactor/Rename to globally rename the namespace to the new project name.
(optional) Open the AssemblyInfo.cs file and change the assembly name to match.
Save and close the solution.
Using Windows Explorer, rename the project folder to the new name.
Open the SLN file in a text editor and find the one reference to the project path and change it to use the new folder name.
There are four needed steps, but seven recommended. At the end of the day though the project is renamed completely. Technically, the folder name for the project doesn’t have to match the project itself, so even that step is optional, but it can be confusing if they don’t match. The same for the assembly and namespace names.
In andersjanmyr's answer it's easier to rename the project first.
Rename the project.
Close the solution (save it).
Rename the folders outside Visual Studio.
Open the solution, ignoring the warnings.
Go through all unavailable projects and set the property 'File Path' to the new location of your project file, i.e. someproject.csproj.
Reload the project.
Also, after those steps are carried out, you might want to rename other references to your old project name.
In project properties, update the Assembly Name and Default Namespace.
This will update the following in the project file...
<RootNamespace>SomeProjectName</RootNamespace>
<AssemblyName>SomeProjectName</AssemblyName>
...and will get rid of the error "Namespace does not correspond to file location, should be: 'SomeProjectName'"
Rename your root namespace (if you have ReSharper right click the Namespace and go Refactor -> Rename).
Change all occurrences of your old project name in AssemblyInfo.cs.
For those using Visual Studio + Git and wanting to keep the file history (works renaming both projects and/or solutions):
Close Visual Studio
In the .gitignore file, duplicate all ignore paths of the project you want to rename with renamed versions of those paths.
Use the Git move command like this:
git mv <old_folder_name> <new_folder_name>
See documentation for additional options: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-mv
In your .sln file: Find the line defining your project and change the folder name in path. The line should look something like:
Project("{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}") = "<Project name>", "<path-to-project>\<project>.csproj"
Open Visual Studio, and right click on project → Rename
Afterwards, rename the namespaces.
I read that ReSharper has some options for this. But simple find/replace did the job for me.
Remove old .gitignore paths.
For Visual Studio 2017 you can use my Visual Studio extension:
Download
It will rename the project in:
The project location folder
The solution file
References in other projects
The assembly name, information
The default namespace
I just had to do this myself (using Visual Studio 2010). As some folks have answered, the simplest step seems to be:
Close the Visual Studio project.
Open the .sln file and rename the project directory prefix for each of the .csproj occurrences.
Save the .sln file
Rename the actual project folder directory on your hard drive to match your changes in the .sln file.
Open the .sln (in Visual Studio) and rebuild
Using Visual Studio 2019, I followed below steps to make the project name change successful:
Close the solution
Rename the project folder to match with new project name
Open solution file in notepad++ kind of editor and edit the FilePath with new project name folder
Open the solution and click No if it ask whether you want to open from source control
Right click the project which you want renaming and click Properties then change below:
Change Assembly Name,
Default Assembly namespace and
Assembly information with new name
Open any of the file and move the file to new namespace which will be done by all files
If you have app.config kind of files then make sure to move them also in new namespace
Rebuild it which will work successfully
A proven solution for Visual Studio extension for Data Tools for Business Intelligence (SSDT-BI 2013):
Move the Project folder to its new location (don't rename anything yet)
In Solution Explorer, rename the Project / Solution.
Close (and save) the newly-renamed project.
Rename the project's folder and .sln file.
Use a text editor and open the newly-renamed project solution file (.sln) (I used Notepad++)
In line number 6 you'll see: "Project {fdjfksdjk4387!...} = "OLDPROJECT", "OLDFOLDER\OLDPROJECT.rptproj". Rename everything with the new names used in step 4. (i.e. ... = "NEWPROJECT", "NEWFOLDER\NEWPROJECT.rptproj"... )
That's it!
It was tested 100% and worked flawlessly in my case.
NOTE: I can't confirm if it works under different project templates and other Visual Studio versions. As always, do backup everything beforehand.
What worked for me in Visual Studio 2017:
Close solution in Visual Studio
Rename the directories of projects in the solution.
(push change in source control - Git in my case)
Edit the .sln file in a text editor (outside Visual Studio 2017) changing the name of the directory.
Reopen the solution in Visual Studio
It said something like "re-adding project". I rebuilt everything and everything was good to go.
See item 3 in the linked article.
Close the solution and the IDE.
In Windows Explorer: Change the directory name to the new name.
In Windows Explorer: Open the .sln file with a text editor.
Change the directory name to the new name and save.
Restart the IDE and open the solution from menu File → Recent Files menu if it doesn't start automatically.
Click on the project folder in Solution Explorer and check the path property in the properties at the bottom. It will now be referencing to the new project folder.
It worked for me.
I've had to do this lots of times. It's really useful to be able to repurpose an existing project, but be able to rename text in namespaces, files, and folders (including file / directory names).
Using a recursive find and replace starting at the root folder means the rename doesn't break links to projects in the solution files and project references.
To this end, I have created a project to do just this. The application also makes an effort to ignore version control folders such as .git, .svn and the .vs settings file. More information is in the README.
https://github.com/garethrbrown/vs-project-rename
I am recently working on .Net 6 project with VS2022. and I need to rename my templatemicroservice to my UserMicroservice.
.Net 6 changes most of the things for you. like AssemblyNames and NameSpaces. Also, it changes the ProjectName references in .sln automatically. So, this answer will really help you to rename your service with no hurdles.
So, Steps I followed:
Open the solution in Visual Studio and did these steps:
I renamed my solution by right clicking on it. like, TemplateServiceSolution to UserServiceSolution.
Renamed all the Projects in solution by right clicking on them. like, TemplateService to UserService.
In a specific project, I searched the namespaces like: namespace TemplateService and replaced all by namespace UserService. Do this step in each project. Also relplace using TemplateService to using UserService.
Open your launchsettings.json, and rename anything related to old service, as I had few things in profiles of launchsettings.json.
Just to be sure, please check your startup and program.cs files as well, I didn't have any changes in them.
Closed the solution from Visual Studio and did these steps:
Closed the solution, and opened the File Explorer. Renamed all my project folders from TemplateService to UserService.
Open the .sln in notepad/notepad++, and must change the Folder Structure name. like for a particular project, I should give the correct .csproj paths. as shown in image, I need to rename TemplateService to UserService.
Open the solution in Visual Studio. Most of your Dependencies will be loaded as soon as you Load your solution in Visual Studio Code. and you are ready.
I just solved this problem for myself writing a global dotnet tool (that also takes into account git+history).
Install via
dotnet tool install -g ModernRonin.ProjectRenamer, use with renameproject <oldName> <newName>.
Documentation/Tinkering/PRs at
https://github.com/ModernRonin/ProjectRenamer
This worked well for me in Visual Studio 2019.
Rename the solution, projects in Visual Studio by simply single
clicking on the file names as normal.
Rename the namespaces in Visual Studio.
Rename the desired elements on the main project page (publish location, application, default namespace, whatever). As noted correctly, this does nothing for the folders, but it does rename the project files and keeps everything tied together in Visual Studio.
Close Visual Studio.
Rename the folders.
Open Visual Studio and reply 'no' to getting projects from Source Control.
Delete the unloaded project references.
Add each project back in using Add existing project from Solution. This tied everything together and the project built for me.
Please comment on and correct anything above that does not work.
This is how I renamed my existing project in VS19.
Close the visual studio project
Rename and open the each project folder name on your drive
Rename each .csproj
Open .sln file and rename the project directory prefix for each of the .csproj occurrences.
Open the .sln file in visual studio and rebuild
Update prevoius nameSpace refrence with new one by going through each file or using ReplaceAll
Note: This fix is for Visual Studio 2008, but it should work here.
Using Windows Explorer, rename both the solution folders (the parent folder and the child folder) to the new solution name.
Delete the .sln file located in the parent folder.
In Visual Studio, select menu File ► Open Project.
Drill into the new folder you just renamed and open the .csproj file (located in the child folder).
Right-click the project name and rename it to what you want. (It should be the same name as the folder in step 1.)
Select menu File ► Close Solution. A dialog will ask if you want to save changes to the .sln file. Click Yes.
In the Save File As dialog, point to the newly renamed parent folder and click Save.
(Note: Make sure the .sln file has the same name as the folder. It is not required, but it maintains consistency.)
Done.
I have written a small tool that automates all these steps. It also supports Subversion for now.
Information about current releases can be found at Visual Studio Project Renamer Infos.
The latest releases can now be downloaded from the Visual Studio Project Renamer Download Page.
Feedback is much appreciated.
I often had the same problem of renaming a project in Visual Studio and editing the folder name, project name, and .sln file in order to accomplish that. I just wrote a VBScript script that accomplishes all that. You have to be careful with the strings you choose for replacing.
You just have to put the .vbs file in the same directory as the .sln file of the solution.
' Script parameters'
Solution = "Rename_Visual_Studio_Project" '.sln'
Project = "Rename_Visual_Studio_Project" '.csproj'
NewProject = "SUCCESS"
Const ForReading = 1
Const ForWriting = 2
Set objFso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
scriptDirr = objFso.GetParentFolderName(wscript.ScriptFullName)
' Rename the all project references in the .sln file'
Set objFile = objFso.OpenTextFile(scriptDirr + "\" + Solution + ".sln", ForReading)
fileText = objFile.ReadAll
newFileText = Replace(fileText, Project, NewProject)
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(scriptDirr + "\" + Solution + ".sln", ForWriting)
objFile.WriteLine(newFileText)
objFile.Close
' Rename the .csproj file'
objFso.MoveFile scriptDirr + "\" + Project + "\" + Project + ".csproj", scriptDirr + "\" + Project + "\" + NewProject + ".csproj"
' Rename the folder of the .csproj file'
objFso.MoveFolder scriptDirr + "\" + Project, scriptDirr + "\" + NewProject
Rename the project in the solution and the project folder
Delete the project from the solution
Add the existing project to the solution (your renamed project)
It works for me. TFS will also track the new project.
You cannot rename a folder if your project is currently running
Stop your application Shift+F5
Rename your folder from the Solution Explorer (right-click > rename or F2)
When using TFS, step 2 is actually to rename the folder in source control and then get the latest before reopening the solution.
There's a simpler approach which was tested in Visual Studio 2013 Update 1 and applicable for TFS-connected projects:
Open Visual Studio, but let the solution be closed.
Open Source Explorer and rename the desired folder (the solution will be closed for you if you didn't already close it first).
Right-click on the solution (from Source Explorer also) and select check-in.
Open the solution. You'll be told that there're new projects added. Accept to get the changes.
Remove the project from the solution and add it again, and then check-in.
Check that the internal references are OK.
We recently uploaded a beta of a free Visual Studio extension which does this stuff for you.
Have a look at Visual Studio Gallery: Gallery Download
Well, I did it my way
Close Visual Studio 2012
Rename your subdirectory to the preferred name under .sln
Delete the *.suo file
Open the solution again, and fix any properties of Project(s) loaded to meet the new subdirectory name
Rename the project outside Visual Studio.
Edit your_project_name.sln with a text editor, and rename the path to the new path.
Open .sln in a text editor, and in the following line change <FolderName> to your new folder name
Project("{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}") = "Ricky", "\.csproj", "{021CC6B0-8CFB-4194-A103-C19AF869D965}"