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Move the list of source files with classes inside to another folder and automatically change the namespace

Let's say I have 100 winforms in my Forms folder. All form classes belong to the ProjectName.Forms namespace. I want to move all these forms to the WinForms folder, and I want their namespace to change to ProjectName.WinForms.

Is there a way to do this automatically without manually changing the namespace of each form? I have Resharper but couldn't find any options that could help.

Thanks in advance.

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To do this, you can use the Visual Studio Replace In Files command. In the menu Edit → Find and Replace → Replace in Files.

Next to the Look in dropdown, you have a builder button. By clicking on this, you will see a window where you can specify the folder you want to look at.



Here is the screening:

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For these types of scripts, I usually use shell script magic (you'll need cygwin and / or Perl or the like). Sort of:

for i in *; do perl -pi -e 's / ProjectName.Forms / ProjectName.WinForms / g' $ i; done



I suppose VS probably has some kind of advanced search and replaces the built in functionality.

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You can use Replace in Files to restrict the replacement to a specific folder and match whole words to avoid unwanted replacements.

First, replace all "ProjectName.Forms namespace" with "ProjectName.WinForms namespace" and then, if you have dependent code, replace "using ProjectName.Forms;" with 'using ProjectName.WinForms;' in that.

(Edit: assumed C #)

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