How to copy a solution and rename it

Question

_{Wednesday, March 24, 2010 5:06 AM | 5 votes}

Hi,

I have a website project .The name of the solution file is ABC.SLN.The folder in which this solution file is residing is ABC.

I want to create a new folder XYZ and copy all the files in ABC folder.Now i want to rename solution file to XYZ

By doing this way, when i open XYZ.SLN, it does not load the files  rathar gives some errors

My aim is to copy the files to somewhere else and rename it so that i can wotk on duplicate of the project

How to do this?

Thanks

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All replies (4)

_{Thursday, March 25, 2010 11:06 AM ✅Answered}

Hi Raj,

Thank you for your post.

For Solution file, it is a structure for organizing projects in Visual Studio. It contains the state information for projects in .sln (text-based, shared) and .suo (binary, user-specific solution options) files.
For more information, please check: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb165951.aspx

Thus, it is not recommended to directly change the name of the solution since it would cause many problems to happen.

For your concern, you can create a new website project named XYZ and add the items that you want from ABC project
to this XYZ project.

Hope this helps! If you have any concern, please feel free to let me know.

Best regards,
Yichun Chen
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_{Friday, March 26, 2010 5:09 AM | 1 vote}

Hi Raj

Do not use Copy-Paste method. You can not change a Solution name like the way you are doing.

Just create a new website with your new Solution name (e.g. XYZ.SLN) and Right click on your project and select Add Existing Items - Select all of your files (What ever u have in your ABC.SLN). Then save it.

Best Regards

Kapil Waghe

_{Friday, March 26, 2010 6:22 AM | 10 votes}

Hi,

You can copy the entire solution to the XYZ folder. Open the ABC solution from the XYZ folder, rename the solution in the name field to XYZ.sln in the properties and perform a Save As for the renamed solution to XYZ.sln.

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_{Wednesday, April 27, 2011 4:57 PM | 1 vote}

Exactly what I was looking for.  I wanted to avoid copying and renaming the solution file if at all possible as I remember getting into trouble doing that once.  I wasn't sure if I could rename the solution in the Solution Explorer.  This worked as I expected.  Thanks!