It also has excellent support for other file types built-in such as editing HTML and XML. It’s good for working with text files other than just source code – it has plenty of selection and manipulation features (including regular expressions), it supports Unicode and gets character encoding right – and it’s broadly what I’m used to. The Visual Studio EditorĪ final note about the Visual Studio editor: I’m a big fan. This will refresh all of the affected registry keys to reference Visual Studio 2010 again. The solutionįortunately there’s an easy fix: run the Visual Studio 2010 installer from ‘Control Panel’, ‘Uninstall programs’ (or ‘Add / Remove programs’ on older version of Windows) and select ‘Repair / Reinstall’. an XML file, it would open in Visual Studio 20. If you now double-clicked a file that would usually open in Visual Studio, e.g. As you can see the version-independent program ID for this interface has been reset to the 2008 version, VisualStudio.DTE.9.0. This is a machine with Visual Studio 2008 (version 9) and 2010 (version 10) after the recent VS 2008 MFC security fix. for the primary automation interface VisualStudio.DTE: This includes resetting the version independent registry keys, e.g. Unfortunately part of the installation process includes a registry ‘repair’ install, which resets all registry keys back to their defaults – for the version of Visual Studio that you’re patching, regardless of other versions present on the machine. Microsoft periodically releases service packs and security fixes for Visual Studio. This can mean that with several new projects in development and old projects in support, in the past I have had two, three or even four different versions of Visual Studio installed on my development machine. However it is often safer to leave a completed, tested and deployed project running in older technologies if there is no compelling reason to upgrade. Here at Softwire we keep pace with the latest technologies and tools as much as we can. Files open in the wrong version of Visual Studio

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