I did a bad thing, and I need help undoing it, because I don't know where to make the correction and don't want to further mess things up.
I have an ASP.NET MVC3 solution in VS 2010 with three projects.
In one of the projects, I have three folders, each with several files in them.
I realized that I mistakenly created a file in the wrong folder, so I dragged it into the correct folder.
After I did this, I renamed the namespace by typing in the right one, referencing the folder I just moved it into.
When I did that, the magic cursor, or whatever it's called, appeared under the new text I just typed in...so I hovered. It asked me if I wanted to rename from the old value to the new one I just typed in. So, I click yes.
I think a number of you already know what that means, but I hadn't a clue. Yes, I'm new at this. :)
All using statements in my solution referencing the original folder have been renamed in the process. The original folder is no longer available in any using statements I try to add.
Also of note, I had no clue what was doing this and thought my solution was corrupt or something, so I cleaned, and built, and rebuilt, and rebooted...so undo isn't an option.
What are my options for getting back to "normal" in my solution?
Thanks!
UPDATE, PROBLEM SOLVED:
All I had to do was rename the bad folder so I could create a new folder in the project with the bad folder's original name. I then moved the files from the bad folder into the new folder and corrected their namespaces.
Trashed the old folder.
Updated using statements.
Built the solution.
All is well.
I was afraid the rename went a lot deeper than it did. I'm not certain why this worked, but thank god it did.
Thanks to all who replied. I'll be exploring SVN this evening!
for example, you have tow folders named: Views and ViewModels in your project that named MyMvcProject; your namespaces will be MyMvcProject.Views and MyMvcProject.ViewModels;
and you rename the MyMvcProject.Views to MyMvcProject.ViewModels;
to undo, first exclude the folder named ViewModels - right-click on it, and select Exclude From Project; now open the find and replace window - Ctrl + f - select Quick Replace tab, in Find what textbox type .ViewModels and in Replace with textbox type .Views; set Look in to Current Project and click Replace All;
now must all ViewModels in project - not old viewmodels, because you exclude the ViewModels folder from project - be replaced with Views; now, include the excluded folder (ViewModels) and rebuild the project; if you got an error about namespace of any type, insert this using statement:
using MyMvcProject.Views;
regards.
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Me and my brother are trying to learn C# together. We are trying to follow a guide to do a simple RPG tex-based game.
But we dont always have the possibility to do it together. So I was thinking of making a duplicate of the entire program, and go at it alone. When my brother later could join, I could just simply go back to the original project.
This has turned out to not be as simple as I would hope. There are guides to do this on this very site, but the ones that seem to be working the best feels very complicated and contain many many steps. Since I am a beginner I have a hard time following the logic of it all.
Is there ANY type of extension or upgrade to Visual studio that simply lets you have the option to "Duplicate Project to other folder". That would be ideal!
As I've said, I have searched a while for this on google and whatnot, but couldn't find anything satisfactory. Hope you can help!
Thanks
//Simon
/EDIT/
I now realized that the copying wasn't the real issue. The problem is RENAMING your folders. Visual studio doesn't like you to move around stuff and renaming them and it makes it a hassle to fix it.
But as long as I just open one project in one folder when I'm programming with my brother and the other project in another folder and dont mix them up, I should be fine
Thanks for your help tough.
I think this is what you are asking for. I could have commented but you said you where new so I hope the instructions are simple enough to follow:
In Visual Studiom, open up solution explorer, usually located on the right
Right click the solution name, which should be the very first item on the list
Select "Open Folder in File Explorer"
Select all the items in the folder and copy them, a simple Ctrl + A and then Ctrl + C should work
Go up one level
Create a new folder, say "RPGMyCopy"
Enter the new folder and then paste
Double click on the solution file .sln file
Thats it, you're working on a new copy.
I am having issues with check in my code files because of some changes I have made to the project and solution. I have renamed project files, added different project files in the solution and added many files in the existing project.
Now I am getting an error while checking in the code.
The error details are:
Check In: Operation not performed Could not find file
'....Console.csproj.vspscc'.
How do I create a vspscc file if it does not get created on its own?
Any help would be great and thanks in advance.
This looks pretty stupid on my part. I restarted my Visual Studio and I could perform the check in because Visual Studio created the vspscc file when it opened the projects and solution.
Answering my own question as fast as possible so nobody else prints my own negligence before me.
And for anybody who needs an answer as how to create a vspscc file, restart the visual studio IDE
I have also seen this in another situation (VS2012) where a simple restart didn't do the trick.
I had a number of new projects which I had added to an existing solution but in the wrong place. Undoing and re-adding seemed to be fine until check-in, where it complained that the newly added projects and related .vspscc files could not be found. It was looking for them in the original location rather than where they are now.
Resolution was to go to the Source Control Explorer, which still had check-in items against these files in their original (but non-existing) locations, as well as the files in their correct locations. Selecting these errant references and "Undo pending Changes" for these files did resolve the issue.
I'd try using File/SourceControl/ChangeSourceControl dialog and unbind (if necessary) then rebind the project to TFS to recreate the .csproj.vspscc.
I removed projects and have same issue, so my solution was to re-create the same projects with same name, then remove them cleanly :-) I hope this helps
I had a similar problem, but in my case I Visual Studio/TFS couldn't fine the .csproj file. Anyway, with the help of a colleague I was able to determine that the issue was within TFS itself. TFS may have a different view of your source code than Visual Studio does. I had created the wrong type of project (I'll call it Proj1) and deleted it from within VS. Then created the correct project type, which I'll call Proj2. When I when to check it into TFS it complained about Prog1.csproj, which confused me because I couldn't see it within VS. What I learned was that you have to go into TFS's Source Control Explorer. From there you'll see how TFS sees things. Sure enough, there was Proj1.csproj (and some other related files to Proj1). What I had to do within Source Control Explorer was undo the pending check-in's of those files and folders which I didn't want to check in and no longer existed anyway. Then TFS was happy and I could perform the check-in.
I am new to C# and Sharepoint Web Services. I wrote a program awhile back, and I want to use that program as my starting point for the next project. It has all the references and resources already in place. Essentially, I want to copy the solution, and rename it, then change it to meet my current needs.
What's the best way to do that?
Try this:
open Windows Explorer, copy your solution and its folders, paste into a new location.
rename your copied .sln to something else (hit key F2 from Windows Explorer)
open that copied solution, and rename the solution (and perhaps your projects within)
You can open the old project in visual studio and then go to File --> Export Template and follow the wizard.
This will allow you to create a project template that will then be available with all your other project templates in File --> New project.
You can do this per project (or per item which will not help in your case). It then automatically renames your namespaces etc. if the template is configured correctly.
The most straight-forward approach would probably be to just create a new solution, then manually copy all the projects under that solution and add to the new solution (right click on the solution name in Solution Explorer -> Add -> Existing Project.
From there, rename the projects if required, being careful to keep things like the Default namespace and Assembly name consistent with your new project name (you can find these under each project's properties page). Also keep an eye out for any paths that might need changed in the pre / post build steps. You will probably also want to rename the existing namespaces (right-click the namespace in code, Refactor -> Rename...)
Also, this might be a good opportunity to spot which projects will be common to both the old application and your new one, and possibly moving these to a third location from which both solutions can reference them.
I'm modifying demo application from this article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd419663.aspx
I need to update all files to use my namespace, for example now file located here:
MySolution\MyApp\DemoApp\ViewModel\MainWindowViewModel.cs
is using such namespace:
namespace DemoApp.ViewModel
{
/// <summary>
/// The ViewModel for the application's main window.
/// </summary>
public class MainWindowViewModel : WorkspaceViewModel
I need to move file here (remove DemoApp folder):
MySolution\MyApp\ViewModel\MainWindowViewModel.cs
and also to use right namespace:
namespace MyApp.ViewModel
{
....
how to do that in visual studio 2010?
Update ok here is possible duplicate Change Project Namespace in Visual Studio Now I know how to change the namespace of the project, but how to move files on the file system? (get rid of "DemoApp" folder)
Go to someplace the namespace is declared in one of your files. Put the cursor on the part of the namespace you want to change, and press F2. This should rename the namespace in every file. At least, it worked in my little demo project I created to test this answer!
Depending on your VS version, the shortcut might also be Ctrl-R,Ctrl-R.
I imagine a simple Replace in Files (Ctrl+Shift+H) will just about do the trick; simply replace namespace DemoApp with namespace MyApp. After that, build the solution and look for compile errors for unknown identifiers. Anything that fully qualified DemoApp will need to be changed to MyApp.
Just right click the solution, go to properties, change "default namespace" under 'Application' section.
Ctrl+Shift+H not the real solution.
You can use Resharper to change your all namespace definitions in your solution. This is the best way I tried before.
https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/features/code_refactoring.html
You can use CTRL+R, CTRL+R or for complex namespace changes use this tool https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vs-publisher-599079.FixNamespace
You can use ReSharper for namespace refactoring. It will give 30 days free trial. It will change namespace as per folder structure.
Steps:
Right click on the project/folder/files you want to refactor.
If you have installed ReSharper then you will get an option Refactor->Adjust Namespaces.... So click on this.
It will automatically change the name spaces of all the selected files.
I have gone through the folder structure with a tool called BareGrep to ensure I have got all of the namespace changes. Its a free tool that will allow you to search over the files in a specified file structure.
I tried everything but I found a solution which really works. It creates independed solution with a new namespace name an so on.
In main form find namespace name -> right click -> Refactor -> Rename and select a new name. Check all boxes and click OK.
In the solution explorer rename solution name to a new name.
In the solution explorer rename project name to a new name.
Close VS and rename folder (in total commander for example) in the solution folder to a new name.
In .sln file rename old name to a new name.
Delete old .suo files (hidden)
Start VS and load project
Project -> properties -> change Assembly name and default namespace to a new name.
I know its quite late but for anyone looking to do it from now on, I hope this answer proves of some help. If you have CodeRush Express (free version, and a 'must have') installed, it offers a simple way to change a project wide namespace. You just place your cursor on the namespace that you want to change and it shall display a smart tag (a little blue box) underneath namespace string. You can either click that box or press Ctrl + keys to see the Rename option. Select it and then type in the new name for the project wide namespace, click Apply and select what places in your project you'd want it to change, in the new dialog and OK it. Done! :-)
When I wanted to change namespace and the solution name I did as follows:
1) changed the namespace by selecting it and renaming it and I did the same with solution name
2) clicked on the light bulb and renamed all the instances of old namespace
3) removed all the projects from the solution
4) closed the visual studio
5) renamed all the projects in windows explorer
6) opened visual studio and added all the projects again
7) rename namespaces in all projects in their properties
8) removed bin folder (from all projects)
9) build the project again
That worked for me without any problems and my project had as well source control. All was fine after pushing those changes to the remote.
In asp.net is more to do, to get completely running under another namespace.
Copy your source folder and rename it to your new project name.
Open it and Replace all by Ctrl + H and be sure to include all Replace everything
Press F2 on your Projectname and rename it to your new project name
go to your project properties and adjust it, coz everything has gone and you need to make a new Debug Profile Profile to Create
All dependencies have now an exclamation mark - restart visual studio
Clean your solution and Run it and it should work :)
When renaming a project, it's a simple process
Rename your project
Edit project properties to have new Default Namespace value
Find/Replace all "namespace OLD" and "using OLD" statements in your solution
Manually edit .sln file in text editor and replace your old project name in the directory structure with your new project name.
Reload solution when VS prompts
In VS 2019 you can rename your namespace using the following steps
Place your cursor in the namespace name.
Press Ctrl+. to trigger the Quick Actions and Refactorings menu.
Select Change namespace to .
For more refer to Microsoft documentation
Anyone trying it out on VS Code, Use the typical Rename option, which will update all the namespace usages across, and if the project name is changed, you will have to go inside each .csproj and replace the new project name.
Don't forget to run dotnet restore, then only it will stop showing build issues.
Visual studio 2022 has a new feature Sync Namespace.
You need to right click the project or solution in solution explorer.
If you have C# files which have been moved between folders and the namespaces are out of sync, this feature should come in handy to set the right namespace for each file based on the . format.
This will especially come in handy when you are performing a migration of a legacy code base.
Reference: https://nitinmanju.medium.com/de-clutter-namespaces-using-c-10-60822af79336
While working on an existing project I suddenly got the following error when trying to compile the solution:
error MSB3105: The item "[filename]" was specified more than once in the "Resources" parameter. Duplicate items are not supported by the "Resources" parameter.
Now, as far as I'm aware, I did not make any change to the project that affects the resources. Also I have checked each and every file within the project, but there is no duplicate reference anywhere to this file.
Now I already found some forum entries regarding this error:
1) Open the .csproj file and remove the duplicate reference. [Tried this, but I cannot find any duplicates in it]
2) In a 'partial class' project, move everything to a single class. [ Could try this, but the project has been split up into partial classes since the start, and I do not want to change this just because of the error ]
So what else could cause this ?
Did you try showing all files in the Solution Explorer? You could have a duplicate .rsx file somewhere in there.
I found the answer in .NET forum posting by Roy Green, and Theresa was right after all, though I did not recognize it.
If you have your main form class split up into partial classes, the partial sections end up in the solution explorer as separate items. And if you double click on them they show up in the designer mode as a normal form. But if you (accidentally) drop a control on these forms, Visual Studio creates a new .resx file and a InitializeComponent routine for it. But since this form is actually just part of the Main Form class it leads to the 'duplicate resources' error. And there is no other solution but to remove the InitializeComponent routine and delete the .resx file by hand.
Be sure that under yourForm.cs no duplicate resources are defined (.resx). If you renamed your Form, remove the old resource because the new one during compile will be created with the new name.
I just made the same mistake. Delete the mainform.designer.vb, then I restored it again from the recycle bin, and found this error message when compiling.
I try to search on google and someone suggested to check on .vbproj. Did that and found a duplicate on some line.
I had this as well, in VB. There is the "real form" file frmMain, and then I had created new class files and modified them to be Partial Public Class frmMain. For example, I have an ImportFromExcel.vb Partial Class file (I didn't want to clutter up the frmMain.vb with the rather complicated Excel import code.)
Everything worked fine until I decided I wanted to use an OpenFileDialog in the Sub ImportFromExcel. I dragged the OFD from the toolbox over to the Designer view of the ImportFromExcel file. (I have no idea why this view exists, if you can't do anything with it!) But at any rate... dragging the OFD to the Partial Class Designer created an ImportFromExcel.resx file. The drag/drop operation also created an InitializeComponent sub in ImportFromExcel, which is redundant and shows an error -- easily corrected with a little editing.
Ultimately, I chose to not use the dragged resource, but localized the code in the ImportFromExcel.vb file.
All you really have to do is right-click the ImportFromExcel.resx file, and choose Delete. Everything else seems to "fix itself", and it builds fine now.
In my case, this problem happened because a file had the same name but not the same case in the GIT repository.
For example MyFile.cs and myFile.cs.
If you do a checkout on windows, one of the files is overwritten by the other (no message, no warning). So, it is compiling, and we don't notice anything. But if you try to compile on Linux (with .NET Core) both files are present, and there is this error at compile time.