Automatic Symbol Renaming When You Rename a File in Solution Explorer

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Menu:  Tools -> Options -> Projects And Solutions -> General
Versions:  2008,2010
Published:  2/19/2010
Code:  vstipTool0011

 

When you rename, say, a Class File from "Class1" to "bubba" for example:

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You receive this prompt:

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Which, in this simple case, results in the renaming of the class and the file:

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If you find yourself doing this a lot then you can get rid of the prompt to rename by going to Tools -> Options -> Projects And Solutions -> General then remove the check from the "Prompt for symbolic renaming when renaming files" option:

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From now on when you do your renaming the prompt will not appear and your symbols will be renamed automatically.