diff --git a/PowerToys.slnx b/PowerToys.slnx
index fabd54f0f0..680e9108d5 100644
--- a/PowerToys.slnx
+++ b/PowerToys.slnx
@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@
       <Platform Solution="*|ARM64" Project="ARM64" />
       <Platform Solution="*|x64" Project="x64" />
     </Project>
-    <Project Path="src/common/Common.UI/Common.UI.csproj">
+    <Project Path="src/common/Common.UI.Controls/Common.UI.Controls.csproj">
       <Platform Solution="*|ARM64" Project="ARM64" />
       <Platform Solution="*|x64" Project="x64" />
     </Project>
-    <Project Path="src/common/Common.UI.Controls/Common.UI.Controls.csproj">
+    <Project Path="src/common/Common.UI/Common.UI.csproj">
       <Platform Solution="*|ARM64" Project="ARM64" />
       <Platform Solution="*|x64" Project="x64" />
     </Project>
@@ -196,6 +196,10 @@
   <Folder Name="/modules/CommandPalette/">
     <Project Path="src/modules/cmdpal/CmdPalKeyboardService/CmdPalKeyboardService.vcxproj" Id="5f63c743-f6ce-4dba-a200-2b3f8a14e8c2" />
     <Project Path="src/modules/cmdpal/CmdPalModuleInterface/CmdPalModuleInterface.vcxproj" Id="0adeb797-c8c7-4ffa-acd5-2af6cad7ecd8" />
+    <Project Path="src/modules/cmdpal/Microsoft.CmdPal.Common/Microsoft.CmdPal.Common.csproj">
+      <Platform Solution="*|ARM64" Project="ARM64" />
+      <Platform Solution="*|x64" Project="x64" />
+    </Project>
   </Folder>
   <Folder Name="/modules/CommandPalette/Built-in Extensions/">
     <Project Path="src/modules/cmdpal/ext/Microsoft.CmdPal.Ext.Apps/Microsoft.CmdPal.Ext.Apps.csproj">
@@ -275,16 +279,6 @@
       <Deploy />
     </Project>
   </Folder>
-  <Folder Name="/modules/CommandPalette/Core/">
-    <Project Path="src/modules/cmdpal/Core/Microsoft.CmdPal.Core.Common/Microsoft.CmdPal.Core.Common.csproj">
-      <Platform Solution="*|ARM64" Project="ARM64" />
-      <Platform Solution="*|x64" Project="x64" />
-    </Project>
-    <Project Path="src/modules/cmdpal/Core/Microsoft.CmdPal.Core.ViewModels/Microsoft.CmdPal.Core.ViewModels.csproj">
-      <Platform Solution="*|ARM64" Project="ARM64" />
-      <Platform Solution="*|x64" Project="x64" />
-    </Project>
-  </Folder>
   <Folder Name="/modules/CommandPalette/Extension SDK/">
     <Project Path="src/modules/cmdpal/extensionsdk/Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.Toolkit/Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.Toolkit.csproj">
       <Platform Solution="*|ARM64" Project="ARM64" />
@@ -305,7 +299,7 @@
     </Project>
   </Folder>
   <Folder Name="/modules/CommandPalette/Tests/">
-    <Project Path="src/modules/cmdpal/Tests/Microsoft.CmdPal.Core.Common.UnitTests/Microsoft.CmdPal.Core.Common.UnitTests.csproj">
+    <Project Path="src/modules/cmdpal/Tests/Microsoft.CmdPal.Core.Common.UnitTests/Microsoft.CmdPal.Common.UnitTests.csproj">
       <Platform Solution="*|ARM64" Project="ARM64" />
       <Platform Solution="*|x64" Project="x64" />
     </Project>
@@ -433,7 +427,7 @@
     </Project>
   </Folder>
   <Folder Name="/modules/FileLocksmith/">
-    <Project Path="src/modules/FileLocksmith/FileLocksmithCLI/FileLocksmithCLI.vcxproj" Id="49D456D3-F485-45AF-8875-45B44F193DDC" />
+    <Project Path="src/modules/FileLocksmith/FileLocksmithCLI/FileLocksmithCLI.vcxproj" Id="49d456d3-f485-45af-8875-45b44f193ddc" />
     <Project Path="src/modules/FileLocksmith/FileLocksmithContextMenu/FileLocksmithContextMenu.vcxproj" Id="799a50d8-de89-4ed1-8ff8-ad5a9ed8c0ca" />
     <Project Path="src/modules/FileLocksmith/FileLocksmithExt/FileLocksmithExt.vcxproj" Id="57175ec7-92a5-4c1e-8244-e3fbca2a81de" />
     <Project Path="src/modules/FileLocksmith/FileLocksmithLib/FileLocksmithLib.vcxproj" Id="9d52fd25-ef90-4f9a-a015-91efc5daf54f" />
@@ -444,7 +438,7 @@
     </Project>
   </Folder>
   <Folder Name="/modules/FileLocksmith/Tests/">
-    <Project Path="src/modules/FileLocksmith/FileLocksmithCLI/tests/FileLocksmithCLIUnitTests.vcxproj" Id="A1B2C3D4-E5F6-7890-1234-567890ABCDEF" />
+    <Project Path="src/modules/FileLocksmith/FileLocksmithCLI/tests/FileLocksmithCLIUnitTests.vcxproj" Id="a1b2c3d4-e5f6-7890-1234-567890abcdef" />
   </Folder>
   <Folder Name="/modules/Hosts/">
     <Project Path="src/modules/Hosts/Hosts/Hosts.csproj">
@@ -470,13 +464,13 @@
   </Folder>
   <Folder Name="/modules/imageresizer/">
     <Project Path="src/modules/imageresizer/dll/ImageResizerExt.vcxproj" Id="0b43679e-edfa-4da0-ad30-f4628b308b1b" />
-    <Project Path="src/modules/imageresizer/ImageResizerContextMenu/ImageResizerContextMenu.vcxproj" Id="93b72a06-c8bd-484f-a6f7-c9f280b150bf" />
-    <Project Path="src/modules/imageresizer/ImageResizerLib/ImageResizerLib.vcxproj" Id="18b3db45-4ffe-4d01-97d6-5223feee1853" />
-    <Project Path="src/modules/imageresizer/ui/ImageResizerUI.csproj">
+    <Project Path="src/modules/imageresizer/ImageResizerCLI/ImageResizerCLI.csproj">
       <Platform Solution="*|ARM64" Project="ARM64" />
       <Platform Solution="*|x64" Project="x64" />
     </Project>
-    <Project Path="src/modules/imageresizer/ImageResizerCLI/ImageResizerCLI.csproj">
+    <Project Path="src/modules/imageresizer/ImageResizerContextMenu/ImageResizerContextMenu.vcxproj" Id="93b72a06-c8bd-484f-a6f7-c9f280b150bf" />
+    <Project Path="src/modules/imageresizer/ImageResizerLib/ImageResizerLib.vcxproj" Id="18b3db45-4ffe-4d01-97d6-5223feee1853" />
+    <Project Path="src/modules/imageresizer/ui/ImageResizerUI.csproj">
       <Platform Solution="*|ARM64" Project="ARM64" />
       <Platform Solution="*|x64" Project="x64" />
     </Project>
diff --git a/src/codeAnalysis/GlobalSuppressions.cs b/src/codeAnalysis/GlobalSuppressions.cs
index ae544b0c76..dad4241522 100644
--- a/src/codeAnalysis/GlobalSuppressions.cs
+++ b/src/codeAnalysis/GlobalSuppressions.cs
@@ -22,13 +22,13 @@ using System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis;
 [assembly: SuppressMessage("StyleCop.CSharp.SpecialRules", "SA0001:XmlCommentAnalysisDisabled", Justification = "Not enabled as we don't want or need XML documentation.")]
 [assembly: SuppressMessage("StyleCop.CSharp.DocumentationRules", "SA1629:DocumentationTextMustEndWithAPeriod", Justification = "Not enabled as we don't want or need XML documentation.")]
 
-[assembly: SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Design", "CA1009:DeclareEventHandlersCorrectly", Scope = "member", Target = "Microsoft.Templates.Core.Locations.TemplatesSynchronization.#SyncStatusChanged", Justification = "Using an Action<object, SyncStatusEventArgs> does not allow the required notation")]
+[assembly: SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Design", "CA1009:DeclareEventHandlersCorrectly", Scope = "member", Target = "Microsoft.Templates.Locations.TemplatesSynchronization.#SyncStatusChanged", Justification = "Using an Action<object, SyncStatusEventArgs> does not allow the required notation")]
 
 // Non general suppressions
 [assembly: SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Globalization", "CA1303:Do not pass literals as localized parameters", Justification = "This is part of the markdown processing", MessageId = "System.Windows.Documents.Run.#ctor(System.String)", Scope = "member", Target = "Microsoft.Templates.UI.Controls.Markdown.#ImageInlineEvaluator(System.Text.RegularExpressions.Match)")]
-[assembly: SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Globalization", "CA1308:NormalizeStringsToUppercase", Justification = "We need to have the names of these keys in lowercase to be able to compare with the keys becoming form the template json. ContainsKey does not allow StringComparer specification to IgnoreCase", Scope = "member", Target = "Microsoft.Templates.Core.ITemplateInfoExtensions.#GetQueryableProperties(Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Abstractions.ITemplateInfo)")]
-[assembly: SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Globalization", "CA1308:NormalizeStringsToUppercase", Justification = "We need to have the names of these keys in lowercase to be able to compare with the keys becoming form the template json. ContainsKey does not allow StringComparer specification to IgnoreCase", Scope = "member", Target = "Microsoft.Templates.Core.Composition.CompositionQuery.#Match(System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1<Microsoft.Templates.Core.Composition.QueryNode>,Microsoft.Templates.Core.Composition.QueryablePropertyDictionary)")]
-[assembly: SuppressMessage("Usage", "VSTHRD103:Call async methods when in an async method", Justification = "Resource DictionaryWriter does not implement flush async", Scope = "member", Target = "~M:Microsoft.Templates.Core.PostActions.Catalog.Merge.MergeResourceDictionaryPostAction.ExecuteInternalAsync~System.Threading.Tasks.Task")]
+[assembly: SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Globalization", "CA1308:NormalizeStringsToUppercase", Justification = "We need to have the names of these keys in lowercase to be able to compare with the keys becoming form the template json. ContainsKey does not allow StringComparer specification to IgnoreCase", Scope = "member", Target = "Microsoft.Templates.ITemplateInfoExtensions.#GetQueryableProperties(Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Abstractions.ITemplateInfo)")]
+[assembly: SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Globalization", "CA1308:NormalizeStringsToUppercase", Justification = "We need to have the names of these keys in lowercase to be able to compare with the keys becoming form the template json. ContainsKey does not allow StringComparer specification to IgnoreCase", Scope = "member", Target = "Microsoft.Templates.Composition.CompositionQuery.#Match(System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1<Microsoft.Templates.Composition.QueryNode>,Microsoft.Templates.Composition.QueryablePropertyDictionary)")]
+[assembly: SuppressMessage("Usage", "VSTHRD103:Call async methods when in an async method", Justification = "Resource DictionaryWriter does not implement flush async", Scope = "member", Target = "~M:Microsoft.Templates.PostActions.Catalog.Merge.MergeResourceDictionaryPostAction.ExecuteInternalAsync~System.Threading.Tasks.Task")]
 [assembly: SuppressMessage("Naming", "CA1707:Identifiers should not contain underscores", Justification = "Used in a lot of places for meaningful method names")]
 [assembly: SuppressMessage("Performance", "CA1822:Mark members as static", Justification = "Static methods may improve performance but decrease maintainability")]
 [assembly: SuppressMessage("Naming", "CA1711:Identifiers should not have incorrect suffix", Justification = "Renaming everything would be a lot of work. It does not do any harm if an EventHandler delegate ends with the suffix EventHandler. Besides this, the Rule causes some false positives.")]
@@ -43,10 +43,10 @@ using System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis;
 [assembly: SuppressMessage("Microsoft.VisualStudio.Threading.Analyzers", "VSTHRD100:Avoid async void methods", Justification = "Event handlers needs async void", Scope = "member", Target = "~M:Microsoft.Templates.UI.ViewModels.Common.SavedTemplateViewModel.OnDelete(Microsoft.Templates.UI.ViewModels.Common.SavedTemplateViewModel)")]
 
 // Localization suppressions
-[assembly: SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Globalization", "CA1303:Do not pass literals as localized parameters", MessageId = "Microsoft.Templates.Core.Locations.JunctionNativeMethods.ThrowLastWin32Error(System.String)", Scope = "member", Target = "Microsoft.Templates.Core.Locations.JunctionNativeMethods.#CreateJunction(System.String,System.String,System.Boolean)", Justification = "Only used for local generation")]
-[assembly: SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Globalization", "CA1303:Do not pass literals as localized parameters", MessageId = "Microsoft.Templates.Core.Locations.JunctionNativeMethods.ThrowLastWin32Error(System.String)", Scope = "member", Target = "Microsoft.Templates.Core.Locations.JunctionNativeMethods.#DeleteJunction(System.String)", Justification = "Only used for local generation")]
-[assembly: SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Globalization", "CA1303:Do not pass literals as localized parameters", MessageId = "Microsoft.Templates.Core.Locations.JunctionNativeMethods.ThrowLastWin32Error(System.String)", Scope = "member", Target = "Microsoft.Templates.Core.Locations.JunctionNativeMethods.#InternalGetTarget(Microsoft.Win32.SafeHandles.SafeFileHandle)", Justification = "Only used for local generation")]
-[assembly: SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Globalization", "CA1303:Do not pass literals as localized parameters", MessageId = "Microsoft.Templates.Core.Locations.JunctionNativeMethods.ThrowLastWin32Error(System.String)", Scope = "member", Target = "Microsoft.Templates.Core.Locations.JunctionNativeMethods.#OpenReparsePoint(System.String,Microsoft.Templates.Core.Locations.JunctionNativeMethods+EFileAccess)", Justification = "Only used for local generation")]
+[assembly: SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Globalization", "CA1303:Do not pass literals as localized parameters", MessageId = "Microsoft.Templates.Locations.JunctionNativeMethods.ThrowLastWin32Error(System.String)", Scope = "member", Target = "Microsoft.Templates.Locations.JunctionNativeMethods.#CreateJunction(System.String,System.String,System.Boolean)", Justification = "Only used for local generation")]
+[assembly: SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Globalization", "CA1303:Do not pass literals as localized parameters", MessageId = "Microsoft.Templates.Locations.JunctionNativeMethods.ThrowLastWin32Error(System.String)", Scope = "member", Target = "Microsoft.Templates.Locations.JunctionNativeMethods.#DeleteJunction(System.String)", Justification = "Only used for local generation")]
+[assembly: SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Globalization", "CA1303:Do not pass literals as localized parameters", MessageId = "Microsoft.Templates.Locations.JunctionNativeMethods.ThrowLastWin32Error(System.String)", Scope = "member", Target = "Microsoft.Templates.Locations.JunctionNativeMethods.#InternalGetTarget(Microsoft.Win32.SafeHandles.SafeFileHandle)", Justification = "Only used for local generation")]
+[assembly: SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Globalization", "CA1303:Do not pass literals as localized parameters", MessageId = "Microsoft.Templates.Locations.JunctionNativeMethods.ThrowLastWin32Error(System.String)", Scope = "member", Target = "Microsoft.Templates.Locations.JunctionNativeMethods.#OpenReparsePoint(System.String,Microsoft.Templates.Locations.JunctionNativeMethods+EFileAccess)", Justification = "Only used for local generation")]
 [assembly: SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Globalization", "CA1303:Do not pass literals as localized parameters", MessageId = "System.Windows.Documents.InlineCollection.Add(System.String)", Scope = "member", Target = "Microsoft.Templates.UI.Extensions.TextBlockExtensions.#OnSequentialFlowStepChanged(System.Windows.DependencyObject,System.Windows.DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs)", Justification = "No text here")]
 [assembly: SuppressMessage("Globalization", "CA1309:Use ordinal string comparison", Justification = "The user's search term should be compared with culture based rules.", Scope = "type", Target = "~T:Microsoft.PowerToys.Run.Plugin.TimeDate.Components.SearchController")]
 
diff --git a/src/modules/cmdpal/Microsoft.CmdPal.Common/Microsoft.CmdPal.Common.csproj b/src/modules/cmdpal/Microsoft.CmdPal.Common/Microsoft.CmdPal.Common.csproj
index 6a05cfc645..b9e6beff32 100644
--- a/src/modules/cmdpal/Microsoft.CmdPal.Common/Microsoft.CmdPal.Common.csproj
+++ b/src/modules/cmdpal/Microsoft.CmdPal.Common/Microsoft.CmdPal.Common.csproj
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   <Import Project="..\..\..\Common.Dotnet.AotCompatibility.props" />
 
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <RootNamespace>Microsoft.CmdPal.Core.Common</RootNamespace> 
+    <RootNamespace>Microsoft.CmdPal.Common</RootNamespace> 
     <Nullable>enable</Nullable>
     <!-- For MVVM Toolkit Partial Properties/AOT support -->
     <LangVersion>preview</LangVersion>
@@ -52,4 +52,12 @@
     <ProjectReference Include="..\extensionsdk\Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.Toolkit\Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.Toolkit.csproj" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
+  <ItemGroup>
+    <Compile Update="Properties\Resources.Designer.cs">
+      <DesignTime>True</DesignTime>
+      <AutoGen>True</AutoGen>
+      <DependentUpon>Resources.resx</DependentUpon>
+    </Compile>
+  </ItemGroup>
+
 </Project>
diff --git a/src/modules/cmdpal/Microsoft.CmdPal.Common/Properties/Resources.Designer.cs b/src/modules/cmdpal/Microsoft.CmdPal.Common/Properties/Resources.Designer.cs
index fe1292abe7..4054f6a107 100644
--- a/src/modules/cmdpal/Microsoft.CmdPal.Common/Properties/Resources.Designer.cs
+++ b/src/modules/cmdpal/Microsoft.CmdPal.Common/Properties/Resources.Designer.cs
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.CmdPal.Common.Properties {
     [global::System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("System.Resources.Tools.StronglyTypedResourceBuilder", "18.0.0.0")]
     [global::System.Diagnostics.DebuggerNonUserCodeAttribute()]
     [global::System.Runtime.CompilerServices.CompilerGeneratedAttribute()]
-    internal class Resources {
+    public class Resources {
         
         private static global::System.Resources.ResourceManager resourceMan;
         
@@ -36,10 +36,10 @@ namespace Microsoft.CmdPal.Common.Properties {
         ///   Returns the cached ResourceManager instance used by this class.
         /// </summary>
         [global::System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableAttribute(global::System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableState.Advanced)]
-        internal static global::System.Resources.ResourceManager ResourceManager {
+        public static global::System.Resources.ResourceManager ResourceManager {
             get {
                 if (object.ReferenceEquals(resourceMan, null)) {
-                    global::System.Resources.ResourceManager temp = new global::System.Resources.ResourceManager("Microsoft.CmdPal.Core.Common.Properties.Resources", typeof(Resources).Assembly);
+                    global::System.Resources.ResourceManager temp = new global::System.Resources.ResourceManager("Microsoft.CmdPal.Common.Properties.Resources", typeof(Resources).Assembly);
                     resourceMan = temp;
                 }
                 return resourceMan;
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.CmdPal.Common.Properties {
         ///   resource lookups using this strongly typed resource class.
         /// </summary>
         [global::System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableAttribute(global::System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableState.Advanced)]
-        internal static global::System.Globalization.CultureInfo Culture {
+        public static global::System.Globalization.CultureInfo Culture {
             get {
                 return resourceCulture;
             }
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.CmdPal.Common.Properties {
         ///
         ///(While you’re at it, give the details below a quick skim — just to make sure there’s nothing personal you’d prefer not to share. It’s rare, but sometimes little surprises sneak in.).
         /// </summary>
-        internal static string ErrorReport_Global_Preamble {
+        public static string ErrorReport_Global_Preamble {
             get {
                 return ResourceManager.GetString("ErrorReport_Global_Preamble", resourceCulture);
             }