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Rename a project file

When you rename a file in the Project panel of Microsoft® Expression Blend™, any references to that file throughout the project will break, similar to how links can break in HTML. For example, if you rename an image file in your project, and the image is used in several documents in your project, the image will no longer appear in those documents. Instead, you will see an error on the artboard that says "Could not find file". You will have to make the name change everywhere that the image is referenced in order to fix the error.

Under Files in the Project panel, do one of the following:

• Right-click the item that you want to rename, click Rename, and then type the new name.
• Click the name of the item you want to rename, single-click the name again to make the name editable, and then type in the new name.

Do not change the file name extension (for example, ".xaml") of any file in your project, because changing file name extensions can lead to application errors.