Visual Studio–Painlessly Renaming Your Project and Solution Directories
Working in Visual Studio, we often find ourselves needing to rename our project and/or solution and the directories they live in. In particular, when we clone a project from Github, what we end up with the a complete, workable solution, but named other than what we would like. As an example, I recently posted articles on Creating a Stripped-down ASP.NET Web Api Solution ,as well as an article on Extending Identity Accounts and Implementing Role-Based Security in ASP.NET MVC 5 . In both cases, I linked to example projects on my Github repo which not only serve as examples for the article content, but in fact present the workable start for your own solution. Except, they are named "YadaYadaYadaExample." NOTE: I go into what may seem like excruciating detail in this article. Experienced users may wonder what the fuss is about, that it should take this much space to explain how this works. This is targeted at those newer to Visual Studio who may be running into this fo