Enhance rename functionality, renaming related items

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Enhance rename functionality, renaming related items #22375

Open BretJohnson opened 6 years ago

BretJohnson commented 6 years ago

Version Used: VS 2017 15.4 P2

Steps to Reproduce:

Rename a class or other type

Expected Behavior: I'd love to see VS behave more like ReSharper, where renaming a type also:

Renames the source file automatically, if the file name matched the previous class name
Prompts to remove related symbols, like for variables who are named the same, or similar to, the type name

Actual Behavior:

Just the class is renamed, not related items.

This is probably the ReSharper feature I miss most when using Visual Studio without it. It's one the reasons I continue to use ReSharper.

jcouv commented 6 years ago

FYI @kuhlenh @Pilchie

kuhlenh commented 6 years ago

We currently allow you to "sync type and file name" as a separate quick action (via Ctrl+.). I agree this is a case where we can start to couple code actions together.

The rename for related symbols is interesting...I've only heard one other person mention it before. I can definitely see how this would be a huge productivity booster (especially now that we have smart variable naming based off type names).

kuhlenh commented 6 years ago

@Pilchie @dpoeschl Just heard a couple customers mention this feature request at MSIgnite last week too.

jnm2 commented 6 years ago

Came here to file another of my unfiled coming-from-ReSharper items. Good stuff. It's common for me to improve the type name soon after starting to write a new file, so I look for this a lot.