Visual Studio 2013 using old Website name

Question

So in Visual Studio 2012 I renamed a website in a solution from "oldname" to "newname". I have opened this solution in Visual Studio 2013 and somehow it is using "oldname" for the website instead of "newname". This is not is NOT an ASP.NET website application just an ASP.NET website.

I have searched the content of all files in the solution directory and cannot find "oldname". I am 100% positive that that "oldname" is not in the .sln file and the website does not have a project file of course.

Answer 1

Check %userprofile%\documents\iisexpress\config\applicationhost.config file. It suspect it should have the old name. Rename the website in the file, close your solution and open it back again.

Answer 2

This is how I managed to do it with my solution in Visual Studio 2015:

Close your solution > navigate to .sln-folder > .vs (hidden) > config

Look for error prone names (possible multiples) in the sites section. I removed every <site></site> where there were naming conflicts. In my case I had this for example:

After removing the <site></site>-sections from the current applicationhost.config-file I was able to re-add website projects with my new and correct name!