How can I rename a project folder from within Visual Studio

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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

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When using TFS  step 2 is actually to rename the folder in source control and then get the latest before reopening the solution

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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 nbsp Studio nbsp 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

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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

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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

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See item 3 in the linked article      Close the solution and the IDE  In Windows nbsp Explorer  Change the directory name to the new name  In Windows nbsp 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  rarr  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

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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   Voil

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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  lt old folder name gt   lt new folder name gt    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        lt Project name gt      lt path-to-project gt   lt project gt  csproj   Open Visual Studio  and right click on project  rarr  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

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I did the following    lt Create a backup of the entire folder    Rename the project from within Visual nbsp Studio nbsp 2013  optional not needed   Export the project as a template  Close the solution  Reopen the solution Create a project from the saved template and use the name you like  Delete from the solution explorer the previous project    At this point I tried to compile the new solution  and to do so  I had to manually copy some resources and headers to the new project folder from the old project folder  Do this until it compiles without errors  Now this new project saved the   exe  file to the previous folder    So -    Go to Windows nbsp Explorer and manually copy the solution file from the old project folder to the new project folder  Close the solution  and open the solution from within the new project  Changed the configuration back to  x64  if needed  Delete the folder of the project with the old name from the folder of the solution

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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

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I use Visual nbsp Studio nbsp 2013 and TFS 2013   I did it like this    Open Visual Studio  without opening the solution itself  and use Source Control Explorer to find and rename folders for projects Double-click the solution file in Source Control Explorer to open a solution  You get a question   Projects have recently been added to this solution  Do you want to get them from source control    and you choose Yes  Now the folder and project structure are there  but now files  so now you get the latest version from source control Try to build and commit changes

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See item 3 in the linked article      Close the solution and the IDE  In Windows nbsp Explorer  Change the directory name to the new name  In Windows nbsp 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  rarr  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

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There s a simpler approach which was tested in Visual nbsp Studio nbsp 2013 Update 1 and applicable for TFS-connected projects    Open Visual nbsp 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

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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

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Right click project  rarr  Properties  and set  name  to the required name

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I use Visual nbsp Studio nbsp 2013 and TFS 2013   I did it like this    Open Visual Studio  without opening the solution itself  and use Source Control Explorer to find and rename folders for projects Double-click the solution file in Source Control Explorer to open a solution  You get a question   Projects have recently been added to this solution  Do you want to get them from source control    and you choose Yes  Now the folder and project structure are there  but now files  so now you get the latest version from source control Try to build and commit changes

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After changing the folder name  open the  sln file in Notepad and change the path to new path

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When using TFS  step 2 is actually to rename the folder in source control and then get the latest before reopening the solution

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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

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For Visual nbsp Studio nbsp 2017 you can use my Visual nbsp 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

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Or simply  copy all the codes  open a new project with the desired name  and paste the code  Run debug and then delete the previous project  Done   It worked for me

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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

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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   Voil

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The simplest way is to go to the property of the window  change the name of the default namespaces  and then the rename is done

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I just had to do this myself  using Visual nbsp Studio nbsp 2010   As some folks have answered  the simplest step seems to be    Close the Visual nbsp 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 nbsp Studio  and rebuild

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Open  sln in a text editor  and in the following line change  lt FolderName  to your new folder name Project   FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC       Ricky      csproj     021CC6B0-8CFB-4194-A103-C19AF869D965

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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   Voil

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For Visual nbsp Studio nbsp 2017 you can use my Visual nbsp 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

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I often had the same problem of renaming a project in Visual nbsp 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

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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

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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

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Rename the project outside Visual nbsp Studio  Edit your project name sln with a text editor  and rename the path to the new path

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After changing the folder name  open the  sln file in Notepad and change the path to new path

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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 nbsp Studio nbsp 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

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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  lt oldName gt   lt newName gt   Documentation Tinkering PRs at https   github com ModernRonin ProjectRenamer

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I did the following    lt Create a backup of the entire folder    Rename the project from within Visual nbsp Studio nbsp 2013  optional not needed   Export the project as a template  Close the solution  Reopen the solution Create a project from the saved template and use the name you like  Delete from the solution explorer the previous project    At this point I tried to compile the new solution  and to do so  I had to manually copy some resources and headers to the new project folder from the old project folder  Do this until it compiles without errors  Now this new project saved the   exe  file to the previous folder    So -    Go to Windows nbsp Explorer and manually copy the solution file from the old project folder to the new project folder  Close the solution  and open the solution from within the new project  Changed the configuration back to  x64  if needed  Delete the folder of the project with the old name from the folder of the solution

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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

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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

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We recently uploaded a beta of a free Visual nbsp Studio extension which does this stuff for you   Have a look at Visual nbsp Studio Gallery  Gallery Download

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I was tryng to rename the folder within the visual studio community 2019 and could not find it  However  I figured out that while the code is running you can not change the name of the folder  The answer is   Stop your application from running  Then click on the folder with the right click and the rename name will be there

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This is straightforward in Visual nbsp Studio nbsp 2015  possibly works in older versions    In Solution Explorer  right click on Main solution  rarr  Rename In Solution Explorer  right click on project  under solution   rarr  Rename In Solution Explorer  double click  or right click on Properties  rarr  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  rarr  Rename     This should search and replace all references to your namespace throughout the project  Close the project  rarr  rename the project folder  Edit the  sln file in Notepad  and change the path to the csproj  i e   fu bar csproj  rarr  bar bar csproj

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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      lt RootNamespace gt SomeProjectName lt  RootNamespace gt   lt AssemblyName gt SomeProjectName lt  AssemblyName gt       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

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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 nbsp Studio nbsp 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

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Similar issues arise when a new project has to be created  and you want a different project folder name than the project name   When you create a new project  it gets stored at    path to pro ject YourProject YourProject   proj   Let s assume you wanted to have it directly in the ject folder     path to pro ject YourProject   proj   My workaround to accomplish this is to create the project with the last part of the path as its name  so that it doesn t create an additional directory     path to pro ject ject   proj   When you now rename the project from within Visual Studio  you achieve the goal without having to leave Visual Studio     path to pro ject YourProject   proj   The downside of this approach is that you have to adjust the default namespace and the name of the Output binary as well  and that you have to update namespaces in all files that are included within the project template

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Open  sln in a text editor  and in the following line change  lt FolderName  to your new folder name Project   FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC       Ricky      csproj     021CC6B0-8CFB-4194-A103-C19AF869D965

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There s a simpler approach which was tested in Visual nbsp Studio nbsp 2013 Update 1 and applicable for TFS-connected projects    Open Visual nbsp 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

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Go to the  sln file  right click  open with Notepad    or any editor  Notepad   is the fastest   find the path  change it

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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

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Go to the  sln file  right click  open with Notepad    or any editor  Notepad   is the fastest   find the path  change it

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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

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This is straightforward in Visual nbsp Studio nbsp 2015  possibly works in older versions    In Solution Explorer  right click on Main solution  rarr  Rename In Solution Explorer  right click on project  under solution   rarr  Rename In Solution Explorer  double click  or right click on Properties  rarr  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  rarr  Rename     This should search and replace all references to your namespace throughout the project  Close the project  rarr  rename the project folder  Edit the  sln file in Notepad  and change the path to the csproj  i e   fu bar csproj  rarr  bar bar csproj

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I just had to do this myself  using Visual nbsp Studio nbsp 2010   As some folks have answered  the simplest step seems to be    Close the Visual nbsp 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 nbsp Studio  and rebuild

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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

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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

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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 nbsp Studio nbsp 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

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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

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Right click project  rarr  Properties  and set  name  to the required name

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The simplest way is to go to the property of the window  change the name of the default namespaces  and then the rename is done

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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

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I often had the same problem of renaming a project in Visual nbsp 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

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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

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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   Voil

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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

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Rename the project outside Visual nbsp Studio  Edit your project name sln with a text editor  and rename the path to the new path

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Or simply  copy all the codes  open a new project with the desired name  and paste the code  Run debug and then delete the previous project  Done   It worked for me

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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

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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  lt oldName gt   lt newName gt   Documentation Tinkering PRs at https   github com ModernRonin ProjectRenamer

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We recently uploaded a beta of a free Visual nbsp Studio extension which does this stuff for you   Have a look at Visual nbsp Studio Gallery  Gallery Download

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I was tryng to rename the folder within the visual studio community 2019 and could not find it  However  I figured out that while the code is running you can not change the name of the folder  The answer is   Stop your application from running  Then click on the folder with the right click and the rename name will be there

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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

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What worked for me in Visual nbsp Studio nbsp 2017    Close solution in Visual nbsp 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 nbsp Studio nbsp 2017  changing the name of the directory  Reopen the solution in Visual nbsp Studio   It said something like  re-adding project   I rebuilt everything and everything was good to go

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What worked for me in Visual nbsp Studio nbsp 2017    Close solution in Visual nbsp 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 nbsp Studio nbsp 2017  changing the name of the directory  Reopen the solution in Visual nbsp Studio   It said something like  re-adding project   I rebuilt everything and everything was good to go

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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  lt old folder name gt   lt new folder name gt    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        lt Project name gt      lt path-to-project gt   lt project gt  csproj   Open Visual Studio  and right click on project  rarr  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

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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      lt RootNamespace gt SomeProjectName lt  RootNamespace gt   lt AssemblyName gt SomeProjectName lt  AssemblyName gt       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

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Similar issues arise when a new project has to be created  and you want a different project folder name than the project name   When you create a new project  it gets stored at    path to pro ject YourProject YourProject   proj   Let s assume you wanted to have it directly in the ject folder     path to pro ject YourProject   proj   My workaround to accomplish this is to create the project with the last part of the path as its name  so that it doesn t create an additional directory     path to pro ject ject   proj   When you now rename the project from within Visual Studio  you achieve the goal without having to leave Visual Studio     path to pro ject YourProject   proj   The downside of this approach is that you have to adjust the default namespace and the name of the Output binary as well  and that you have to update namespaces in all files that are included within the project template

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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

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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

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