Visual Studio 2010 Rename Project and cause Namespacing to correspond

Question

In Visual Studio 2010 I have an ASP.NET MVC 3 project called blahblah. As such, all the code within this project is namespaced as blahblah.Controllers, blahblah.Configuration etc.

I want to be able to rename the project to blahblah.Web. Now I know I can just right click on the project and go to rename, but if I do this, none of the namespacing matches anymore.

I would like some way to convert all namespacing so that it is relative to the new project name. blahblah.Web.Controllers, blahblah.Web.Configuration, etc.

Is there an easy way to do this?

Answer 1

Yes, use ReSharper's 'Refactor' menu and select 'Adjust Namespaces'. http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/webhelp/Refactorings__Adjust_Namespaces.html

Answer 2

The easiest way is to use a Replace in Files or CTRL + SHIFT + H .

Search for the full previous namespace eg namespace blahblah.Web.Controllers and replace with the new namespace eg namespace blahblah.Web.Configuration .

Also, remember the change the default namespace in the project properties so that any new files get created in the correct namespace.

Answer 3

Without third party add-ons: Edit > Find and Replace > Replace in Files

Find what: namespace blahblah
Replace with: namespace blahblah.Web

Click on Replace All.

Answer 4

Using Find and Replace

Do a search for "using blahblah." and replace it with "using blahblah.Web."

Ignore the quotation marks there just to show the string to use. That should do it easily enough.