Visual Studio - How to change a project's folder name and solution name without breaking the solution

You could open the SLN file in any text editor (Notepad, etc.) and simply change the project path there.

This is what I did:

1. Change project and solution name in Visual Studio
2. Close the project and open the folder containing the project (The Visual studio solution name is already changed).
3. Change the old project folder names to the new project name
4. Open the .sln file and the change the project folder names manually from old to new folder names.
5. Save the .sln file in the text editor
6. Open the project again with Visual Studio and the solution is ready to modify

I found that these instructions were not enough. I also had to search through the code files for models, controllers, and views as well as the AppStart files to change the namespace.

Since I was copying my project not just renaming it, I also had to go into the applicationhost.config for IIS express and recreate the bindings using different port numbers and change the physical directory as well.