Visual Studio - How to change a project s folder name and solution name without breaking the solution

Question

I am creating a project based off an old project because it has a lot of the functionality that I am required to use   I want to rename all the directories and solution names to have the name of the new project  Under Documents Visual Studio 2008 Projects I was able to change the initial directory and solution file names  but not the name of the subdirectory which houses the bin  obj  and properties folders  When I change the name of that subdirectory  none of the files will open when I open up the solution   How can I change the project s folder name inside Visual nbsp Studio nbsp 2008 so that it will load all the files as part of the solution and still work

User · Accepted Answer

You could open the SLN file in any text editor  Notepad  etc   and simply change the project path there

User · Answer

This is what I did    Change project and solution name in Visual Studio Close the project and open the folder containing the project  The Visual studio solution name is already changed   Change the old project folder names to the new project name Open the  sln file and the change the project folder names manually from old to new folder names  Save the  sln file in the text editor Open the project again with Visual Studio and the solution is ready to modify

User · Answer

I found that these instructions were not enough   I also had to search through the code files for models  controllers  and views as well as the AppStart files to change the namespace   Since I was copying my project not just renaming it  I also had to go into the applicationhost config for IIS express and recreate the bindings using different port numbers and change the physical directory as well

User · Answer

go to my start-documents-iisExpress-config and then right click on applicationhost and select open with visual studio 2013 for web  you will get into applicationhost config window in the visual studio and now in the  region chsnge the physical path to the path where your project is placed

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