Refactoring – Rename Refactoring is a disciplined technique of restructuring your existing body of code by altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior. The Rename refactoring is quite straightforward: it changes the name of a namespace, type, member, or parameter to something new. Rather than trying to make this sort of change using manual find/replace techniques, the Rename refactoring reliably renames all occurrences of the selected token throughout your entire project. You can preview the code changes before applying them to your code. The Rename refactoring in Visual Studio Team System.