title: How to rename existing solution and project in Visual Studio 2008?
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3209002/how-to-rename-a-project-without-killing-solution">how to rename a project without killing solution</a>  </p>
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  <p>I know that this question has been frequently asked, but none could help me overcome the fear of rendering my application useless by improper renaming of my solution,</p>
  
  <p>I am working on a C# Windows application in VS 2008, as in initial step i was unaware of the fact that renaming is such a big issue in VS, i named the project <code>"stock"</code> but now that my project is nearly completed, my lead wants to rename the namespace to <code>BetRates_NS</code> as that is the name of the deployment setup project,</p>
  
  <p>i even have web service references in my solution and other dependencies with the namespace name, ans based on my previous experience, renaming is not so easy in VS,</p>
  
  <p>so can some1 please give me the exact step by step process to rename my solution so that the application might run smooth now and may not crash at a later point of time due to this.</p>
  
  <p>i am totally hoping for some help here.....thanxx in advance......!!</p>
  
  <p>this is my solution explorer screenie:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ntmj4.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>