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DraguVaso - 09 Aug 2005 13:46 GMT

Hi,

I had Visual Studio 2003 installed, and installed also visual Studio 2005
Beta 2.
The problem is, when I am starting now (double click) a solution
(*.sln-file), it always start it with Visual Studio 2005, and not 2003. I'm
trying to change it in the registry, or jsut simply with an "open with" and
the "always use this program to open"-option checked, but it doesn't work.
Simply changing it in the "file types" in the explorer doesn't work either,
it doesn't change there.

Has anybody else had this problem? Anybody found a workaround? Somebody who
has the 2 installed too?

any help would be really appreciated!

Thanks a lot in advance,

Pieter

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Cowboy (Gregory A. Beamer) - MVP - 09 Aug 2005 14:21 GMT

Open 2003 and open the solution from there. Other than that, you should be
able to right click and set the program that opens it, but I am not sure that
will work.

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DraguVaso - 09 Aug 2005 15:37 GMT

Unfortunately that won't work :-(
although, I found what it was: in the registry some things are changed, and
it doesn't realy seem too logical, hehe :-) When installing 2005, it not
only changes the startup-application for the .sln, but also add others stuff
for 2003 and 2002.

I made a reg-file that:
- makes 2003 the default-startup
- adds a "Open 2005" to the right-mouse menu to open a project with VS 2005
hope this can be usefull to some people.

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.sln]
@="VisualStudio.Solution.7.1"
"Content Type"="application/octet-stream"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.sln\OpenWithList]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.sln\OpenWithList\devenv.exe]
@=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.sln\OpenWithProgids]
"VisualStudio.Solution.7.1"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.sln\OpenWithProgids\Shared_Key]
@="Keep this key from being removed on uninstall of SxS Components"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.Solution.7.1]
@="Microsoft Visual Studio Solution Object"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.Solution.7.1\CLSID]
@="{246C57AE-40DD-4d6b-9E8D-B0F5757BB2A8}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.Solution.7.1\DefaultIcon]
@="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
2003\\Common7\\IDE\\devenv.exe,-6826"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.Solution.7.1\Shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.Solution.7.1\Shell\open]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.Solution.7.1\Shell\open\Command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
2003\\Common7\\IDE\\devenv.exe\" \"%1\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.Solution.7.1\Shell\Open 2005]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.Solution.7.1\Shell\Open 2005\Command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio
8\\Common7\\IDE\\devenv.exe\" \"%1\""

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> Open 2003 and open the solution from there. Other than that, you should be
> able to right click and set the program that opens it, but I am not sure that
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> > Pieter

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Cowboy (Gregory A. Beamer) - MVP - 09 Aug 2005 18:01 GMT

Thanks for the response back. That is good information to have for others.

I have been working in VPC with the beta products, as betas tend to be a
dangerous road.

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> Unfortunately that won't work :-(
> although, I found what it was: in the registry some things are changed, and
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Kyle Alons - 11 Aug 2005 17:14 GMT

> Hi,
>
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>
> Pieter

On my machine w/ 2003 and 2005 B2, it seems to intelligently launch the
correct version based on the .sln version. If you want to force it to use
2003, this should work (changing the path as necessary):

; vs2003.reg

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.Launcher.sln\Shell\Open\Command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\VSNET2003\\Common7\\IDE\\devenv.exe\" \"%1\""

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DraguVaso - 12 Aug 2005 08:23 GMT

It gets itself the right version? that's great! But not nice it doesn't it
with me, hehe :-) What OS do you have? I have here W2000 SP4...

> > Hi,
> >
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> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.Launcher.sln\Shell\Open\Command]
> @="\"C:\\Program Files\\VSNET2003\\Common7\\IDE\\devenv.exe\" \"%1\""

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