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mikhail.matrosov
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Russia
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 Posted - Mar 30 2016 : 04:38:24 AM
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| I've been using Visual Assist under Visual Studio 2013. Now I installed Visual Studio 2015. How do I migrate my Visual Assist settings? |
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mikhail.matrosov
Senior Member
Russia
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Posted - Mar 30 2016 : 04:44:11 AM
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Hm, it seems like settings were migrated at some point. But I didn't mention why. I remember when I opened VS2015 just after installing VAX, I went to VAX settings and color scheme was wrong. Then I imported VS2013 settings, opened solution, and color scheme was right. However, I do not see any VAX settings stored in .vssettings file with VS settings.
Could you please explain me what happened? |
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mikhail.matrosov
Senior Member
Russia
29 Posts |
Posted - Mar 30 2016 : 06:50:03 AM
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| Ok, now I see that only _some_ settings were migrated. I am confused. |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
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Posted - Mar 30 2016 : 5:59:50 PM
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Apologies for this. Not all of our settings are present in the IDE options dialog, so they won't be exported or imported, or migrated, when you install a new version of the IDE. So you are going to need to move the remaining settings manually.
The following manual method should work, and move them across, since the colours have already been moved across.
First export your VA settings, via
VA Options -> Performance -> Export Settings
now find and open this .reg file in a text edit. You want to keep the two blocks:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Whole Tomato\Visual Assist X\VANet12]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Whole Tomato\Visual Assist X\VANet12\Format]
and delete the others, since the include file paths in some of the other blocks are IDE specific. Now replace "VANet12" with "VANet14", make sure VS2015 is closed, and then run this modified .reg file. This will overwrite your current VS2015 settings with your exported VS2013 settings, which should produce the result you are looking for. |
zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness |
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mikhail.matrosov
Senior Member
Russia
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Posted - Mar 31 2016 : 06:08:48 AM
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Ok, I see. Thank you.
I actually used this hack with .reg file before, but it is funny to see it as a recommended way to migrate settings. Please, consider making this process less painful. |
Edited by - mikhail.matrosov on Mar 31 2016 06:09:04 AM |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
19014 Posts |
Posted - Mar 31 2016 : 11:16:22 AM
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Yes, hardly an elegant solution, but it helped now. Since we sit along side the IDE, this complicates certain actions. We are considering a change to how our settings are handled, exported and imported, so I have put a note onto this case about handling the migration to a different IDE version as well:
case=79188 |
zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness |
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Migrate settings to new version of Visual Studio
