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If you’ve created SharePoint projects using SharePoint Tools for Visual Studio 2010, you probably know that, when you create a SharePoint Feature and generate the SharePoint package (WSP file), the final name given to that feature is not what you expected.

If you create a new SharePoint project named MyProject, and then create a feature inside it named MyFeature, the final name and folder for the feature will be MyProject_MyFeature.

I don’t know about you, but I like the features to have the names I give them, without the project’s name added to them. The good news is that you can change it 🙂

Here’s how:

  1. On Solution Explorer, double-click the Feature name to open the Feature Editor
  2. On Packaging Explorer, click on the Feature name
  3. On the Properties window, change the value in the Deployment Path property

Renaming a SharePoint Feature

By default, the value for this property is:

$SharePoint.Project.FileNameWithoutExtension$_$SharePoint.Feature.FileNameWithoutExtension$

To remove the project’s name from the Feature name, just remove the first token (and the trailing underscore), leaving it as:

$SharePoint.Feature.FileNameWithoutExtension$

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