http://localhost:1313/tags/features/ Recent content in Features on Matt Thornton Hugo -- gohugo.io en Wed, 05 Aug 2015 12:14:15 +0000 http://localhost:1313/tech/sharepoint/sharepoint-features-renaming/ Wed, 05 Aug 2015 12:14:15 +0000 http://localhost:1313/tech/sharepoint/sharepoint-features-renaming/ <p>This is a fun one. In some of our Visual Studio solutions we use the period character - “.” - for project naming which broadly reflects the namespaces in use.</p> <p>However, this causes issues for Visual Studio namely in the ability to rename features. So when you create a feature, it will adopt a default name of Feature1 and it&rsquo;s not possible to rename it directly from within the solution.</p> <p>Fortunately, there&rsquo;s a nifty workaround that does appear to work, without having to redo your solution/project structure and naming convention. Found via <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7168852/visual-studio-2010-sharepoint-dev-tools-can-feature1-feature-be-renamed">this post</a>:</p>