Change the name (namespace) of website project

Question

Hello,

I am creating a new ASP.NET MVC Web Application in C# using Visual Studio 2010. We haven't decided on the name of our project so are using an arbitrary name for the moment to allow us to get stuck into development. Meanwhile, a brand and new name is being developed so in a month or so this arbitrary name will be redundant.

The question is, once the new project name comes into play do we continue development using the old name or is there an easy way to switch to the new name, changing the namespace and project name etc? I guess this can be done by a finding and replacing etc but wondered if there was a more formal way of doing this?

Out of interest, does anyone know how this works in companies with large development teams? For instance with Microsoft we hear of projects in development months before the release date and they often change name just before release. Presumably they don't work with this name during the entire development period.

Not a completely typical programming question, sorry if its in the wrong place.

Thanks,

Michael

Answer 1

I don't know any nice way beside ctrl+H

Yet sometimes adding two projects under the same solution is acceptable. Just adding using/import at the relevant places - and it should work.

I know that the two projects should be quiet distinct to make this solution good - but it worth a second of thinking of.

If you find a decent way - please share... we all suffered from missing spots in the ctrl+h method :)