jamesjrg / visualstudioprojectrenamer

VisualStudioProjectRenamer

A script to rename a Visual Studio project. The default settings assume a fairly simple C# project, but by changing the configuration settings and/or modifying the script it should work for other languages and more unusual cases. It does the following:

* Renames the project folder and the project file within it

* Alters the referenced project in the root .sln file

* Runs a set of replacements on the contents of the project file - by default RootNamespace and AssemblyName

* Alters the AssemblyInfo.cs file (if it exists)

* Runs a set of regex replacements on files within the project directory which have a certain extension. By default the only replacement carried out at this stage is for C#-style namespace declarations in .cs files

* Runs a set of regex replacements on all files within the solution directory which have a certain extension. By default the only replacement carried out at this stage is for C#-style using declarations in .cs files

* Alters references to the project within other projects in the solution. By default this means modifying ProjectReference sections in .csproj files

Notes:

* You can modify the types of files modified, the modifications carried out and various other things in the config section at the top of the file

* It will only rewrite files that need modification - it won't change last modified timestamps on unaffected files

* No backup is created, because I assume anyone using this is already using source control and can easily revert the changes if it goes wrong

* For the most part, it is fairly conservative in what it modifies. This means if you have to rename a number of projects within a solution with similar names you can rename them one by one without having very broken intermediate stages. However, it will break "using" statements for projects with similar names - e.g. renaming OriginalProjectName will break using statements for other namespaces which are also of the form OriginalProjectName.*

If it doesn't do quite what you want then just open the script, fiddle with it to your liking, and run it again.

How to run it:

As long as you have a relatively recent version of Visual Studio installed you can probably already have the F# interpreter for running interactive scripts installed, and because it is a script no compilation is necessary. Put this script in the root of your solution directory and then run something along the lines of:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\F#\3.1\Framework\v4.0\Fsi.exe" VisualStudioProjectRenamer.fsx -- BadlyNamedProject LovelyNewName

If your Fsi.exe is located somewhere else then modify the above appropriately.