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If you've ever tried to rename a C# project in Visual Studio, you know it's not as easy as it should be. Especially when working in a large repository where a single project can be referenced in many places.

Project Renamer makes this easier.

Make sure the given project and any projects or solutions referencing it are not open in Visual Studio.

Call ProjectRenamer.exe from the command line with the following arguments

• Target project path
• New project name
• (Optional) Directory to search for references in

Example: ProjectRenamer.exe C:\git\myRepo\myProject\myProject.csproj myNewProjectName C:\git\myRepo

You don't need to include the .csproj extension.

What it will update

• The csproj file will be renamed
• The directory containing the csproj file will be renamed to match
• The RootNamespace and AssemblyName values in the csproj will be updated to match
• The AssemblyTitle and AssemblyProduct attributes values in Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs will be updated to match (will be skipped for .NET Core/Standard projects)
• If a search directory is provided, any other csproj or sln files in that directory will have project references updated to the new name and path