I'm trying to convert an "all-fields-public-class" to "all-fields-private-have-accessors". But the refactoring won't let me do it with the "Next" button disabled and the reasoning that the property name does not differ from the field name. I cannot change the property name (it should be as the field used to be , I cannot rename the field (tons of reference updates that will be ditched when encapsulating), so I have to do it by hand. Should support the scenario by creating the samely-named properties and renaming the backing fields.