Renaming an Assembly
Prep Work
Be sure every solution that uses the assembly builds without error.
Close Visual Studio
In Windows Explorer
Rename the folder containing the source code project
Rename the source code project file
In a Text Editor
In the source code project file, do a search and replace
For every
solution
file that
includes
the assembly, do a search and replace
For every
project
file that
references
the assembly, do a search and replace
In Visual Studio
In the source code project, do a search and replace of
namespace
OldName
with
namespace
NewName
.
In the source code project, do a search and replace of
OldName
with
NewName
.
For the
Entire Solution
replace
using
OldName
with
using
OldName
.
Build the solution and resolve any errors.