Rename solution file

Now go to the folder containing your project. Then rename the folder name with your new project name. Now open the. Now Change the Assembly information of projects like this. Controllers Class Global. Now Clean the full solution. Email Address. You must be logged in to post a comment. Prerequisites Visual Studio Download link is available in Downloads page. Right click on the solution and click on Rename. Similarly, do it for the project as well. Share this: Tweet. Print Share on Tumblr.

Even after following the solution described by Contango, I was still getting and error: The OwinStartup attribute discovered in assembly I went through the obj and bin folders and deleted any file with the old name, leaving everything else intact. Restarted vs with my newly named project and it ran like a charm!

LucaSteeb Yup, reportedly was some 50 million lines of code. Show 6 more comments. To rename a solution: In Solution Explorer, right-click the project, select Rename, and enter a new name.

Rename the project physical folder directory. Open the SLN file within notepad or any editor and change the path to the project. Clean and Rebuild the project. Pang 8, gold badges 82 82 silver badges bronze badges. Zaheer Ahmed Zaheer Ahmed It perfectly works! But you need to manage your Dataset manually if you have attached to your project. I also had to rename the. And I found step 4 was already accomplished by one of the previous steps in my VS — Patches.

I'm confused a bit as to whether or not you are referring to the Solution or the Project in step 1. I want to rename both, each with a different name. What would the new namespace be, the new Solution name or the Project name?

Thanks for clarifying this for me. There were several places I needed to do this. Show 7 more comments. Are there free tools available that do this already?

I couldn't find anything. The only thing that might help you is CoolCommands 4. This worked for me as well. I had to make one adjustment, though. I was using the entity framework in a web application, and it left the old. Once I removed those from the project, it worked fine. Hopefully this helps. And thanks, Edoardo! This is absolutely the best way to do it, refer to msdn. Below is a step-by-step way of renaming your entire solution in Visual Studio Assuming we're changing a project named "HelloWorld.

Enter the new name that you desire. For example: namespace HelloWorld. You will notice the below code fragment: [assembly: AssemblyTitle "HelloWorld. Once you're done, rename the folder "HelloWorld. Open the solutions file with visual studio, and clean and rebuild the project. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Abhishek Agrawal Abhishek Agrawal 1 1 silver badge 7 7 bronze badges.

ToastedSoul ToastedSoul 1, 1 1 gold badge 17 17 silver badges 25 25 bronze badges. Edit any code or xml files found and rebuild, should be ok now. Michael Michael 5 5 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges. Within the solution in Visual Studio, remove the project. Rename the directory in Windows Explorer. Add the project back in again within Visual Studio. Disadvantages If you remove a library, it removes any references to the said library from other projects.

The solution may not compile after this until you add the references to said library back in this is quite easy. Thank you n3dst4. That was the only thing among all the garbage out there which really helped me. Where would you recommend actually changing the names of the folders on disk? I'm going to try doing this between steps 7 and 8. Thank you for the steps. You could also get rid of the old. You can do this by deleting those folders and rebuilding the solution.

However, having those old files sticking around won't affect anything. Merci beaucoup!!! Hahahaha, I really like Step 1! That's really the best part of this advice. I will now try it out Worked great. Well, the tricky part of cause here is not loosing the Github-history. Hence I made a short demo-video on how to achive it easily:.

Thank you. I just solved this problem for myself writing a global dotnet tool. You can see whether it works for your case, too:. Thanks ModernRonin.