I want to run two instances of Visual studio having different settings, one having bigger fonts.
How do I do that?
When I run the second instance of vs with
devenv.exe /ResetSettings other.vssettings
that settings affects all running instances of Visual Studio (they seem to poll for changed settings).
You can start Visual Studio with a different "Root Suffix" this will read all the settings from a different registry tree and folder from disk:
devenv.exe /RootSuffix OtherInstanceName
This will give you a new "vanilla" configured Visual Studio instance. Any extensions need to be installed into that instance as well. To install Resharper, use the following steps:
To install to an experimental instance, run the ReSharper unified installer, select the Options button, and enter the name of the instance. The experimental instance does not need to exist before starting the install
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/resharper/sdk/Extensions/Deployment/LocalInstallation/ExperimentalInstance.html
In Visual Studio 2017 this became a bit easier. There you can create completely separate instances from the installer.
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I am looking to use TypeScript within Visual Studio 2013. For some reason, however, I cannot create a project. Instead, Visual Studio only allows me to be directed to a web page which tells me to install a plugin.
After I've installed the plugin, as well as rebooting my computer a few times; still no dice.
Uninstall all typescript items from Programs and Features in your control panel. Then reinstall this plugin : http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34790
Make sure visual studio is closed throughout uninstall/install process. After the install start visual studio.
I am writing a Visual Studio template wizard. And to debug it I have it start a new instance of Visual Studio 2010.
My Visual Studio 2010 takes a good while to start up. I believe that this is due the the add-ins and extensions that I have installed for visual studio.
I would rather not go disable them all (I really like them). So I was hoping there was a way to disable them via the command line.
Just run a clean Visual Studio instance.
Is there a way to do that?
Try safemode
devenv.exe /safemode
which
Starts Visual Studio in safe mode, and loads only the default environment and services, and shipped versions of third-party packages.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xee0c8y7.aspx
I have Visual Studio 2008 & 2010 installed. I have a 'debugger' statement in some javascript. When I run the app from within VS, sometimes the VS prompt does not offer the current instance. I only see options to open new instances of VS 2008 & VS 2010.
What are some circumstances that would cause this?
If the instance is already in debug mode, it will not appear on the list.
I have created a visual studio setup project, but I don't know how to create uninstaller in my visual studio setup project, please tell me how to do that??
I am using Visual Studio 2005, Or is there any other software which creates complete setups with uninstaller.
I have created a visual studio setup project, but I don't know how to create uninstaller in my visual studio setup project, please tell me how to do that??
Kazar's answer is correct. The Visual Studio setup creates a .msi file that describes the installation in a database table. .msi files are consumed by the Windows Installer engine msiexec.exe (much like .docx consumed by Word). If the application is already installed, then the unistall/modify/repair options are presented.
I am using Visual Studio 2005, Or is there any other software which creates complete setups with uninstaller.
There are free and commercial products available. There are two general types of installations for Windows: Windows Installer (.msi) files and script-based installers.
The msi file generated by visual studio setup projects is already both an installer and an uninstaller - run the msi setup file to install it, and then right-click on it to see the uninstall option.
Your installed program will be shown in Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs. You will be able to just hit the "Remove" button there to uninstall your app.
MSI that VS has generated for you is a standard Microsoft installer package, that you can use to install/uninstall software. You can also run admin/silent installations etc, depending on custom command line parameters if you want.
Quickest and easy solution can be found here:
http://tech.chitgoks.com/2009/02/06/visual-studio-create-an-uninstaller-shortcut-in-your-installer-wizard/
if you know where the files were placed and what registry keys were set, you can delete and fix the registry,create an uninstaller program and bundle it with the program in question
the best way would to be to have a generic uninstaller program that takes config files
I installed Visual Studio 2008 package FULL option. It worked with out any problem. I installed Vstudio 2008 and MSDN in separate folder in the D drive. 2 days later in order to remove my projects i uninstalled every thing and also i deleted visual studio 2008, visual studio 2005 folders from C:\Documents and Settings\IRCTC\My Documents. (I believe these 2 folders were automatically created when we install visual studio) also I cleared %path% and path (c/windows/path). Again I installed VISUAL STUDIO 2008 but now I can't able to create window application (other web, vb also), what is the solution for this ...
ERROR that shown is
c:/documents and settings/IRCTC/local settings/temp/g1zzsdl.bak/temp/windowsFormsApplication.csproj cannot be opened because project type (.csproj) is not supported by this version of visual studio.......
Whether any system file corrupted (windows temp or .net folber in windows).....
No other installation problem found in my system.....
please help.....
What are the files/folders required for the installation......
When you get that error is usually because:
You are trying to open a project created with a previous version of Visual Studio (not your case)
There was a bit of a screw-up during the installation (sounds like your case)
I'd uninstall the thing and reinstall completely first thing.
If it still doesn't work, it could be related to VS templates and you might wanna try and run from Visual Studio 2008 command prompt:
devenv /InstallVSTemplates
If it still doesn't work, open Visual Studio, in the menu, Open Tools->Options->Projects and Solutions->General. At this point you will notice the path of Project Templates is set to "C:\Documents and Settings[yourUserName]\My Documents\Visual Studio 9\Templates\ProjectTemplates" or something very similar to that. In order to fix it you gotta set that path to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9\Common7\IDE\Project Templates or the same path according to wherever you installed Visual Studio
I don't think is related to VS project Templates though - see this link
Try and see what happens!
Why didn't you use visual studio's uninstall function available from the control panel|add/remove programs?
I would uninstall the latest installation as described above, and try again.