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.NET Forum / Visual Studio.NET / Extensibility / December 2004Save customized toolbar settings
I usually customize my toolbar to match my specific needs when working in visual studio. Whenever I upgrade VS, Incredibuild, TestTrack or some other Add-in, my toolbar is reset to default - sometimes I even get a warning about, but there's nothing I can do about it...or is there??? please tell me I can do something, it takes an awfull lot of time to start over with the customization. Q: How can I save my customized toolbar settings, so I can restore my settings whenever something f.... things up? Can I export them, or find them in an xml doc that can be backed up, or can i copy and paste the toolbar settings from within some document, or can I create my own bar (like the "build", "debug" and "standard" bar) in a file, hardcode its setup, and use it as an add-in??? Please help me, any other solution, than starting over each time I upgrade my environment will do. Regards, Thomas Pagh Hi, There is an XML file where these settings are stored. On my machine, this file is located here: D:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\IDE\devenv.xml Bad news are that you cannot just back up and restore this file after the upgrade as the newly installed add-in has most likely added its own toolbars to the saved layout. You can of course compare the current and the saved files and merge them somehow, but this is anything but simple.  SignatureSincerely, Dmitriy Lapshin [C# / .NET MVP] Bring the power of unit testing to the VS .NET IDE today! http://www.x-unity.net/teststudio.aspx >I usually customize my toolbar to match my specific needs when working in > visual studio. [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Regards, Thomas Pagh VS doesn't seem to store the buttons/commands i add/delete to/from the toolbar in the file you mentioned, which is C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\IDE\devenv.xml on my machine. I took a copy of the file, then I opened Visual Studio and chose tools-customize..., there i added and removed buttons from my toolbar, and exited VS. Then I compared the recent copy of devenv.xml with the current devenv.xml using Windiff.exe, and there where no changes (Date Modified on the file properties didn't change either). Is there any other file I should be looking into, or perhaps the Registry? Sincerely, Thomas > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > > > Regards, Thomas Pagh Hi Thomas, I spent many weeks trying to figure out a way to do what you're looking for (even after the dev team told me it couldn't be done). Sadly, I never actually found a way to do this. DevEnv.XML is where the window layout for the various IDE modes (Debug, Design, etc) is stored. The CmdUI.prf is the file that named commands are persisted to. Note, I do believe this will not apply to the next version though. This is a really big problem, and the VS team is putting the ability to save and restore your settings in the next version. But for the current versions I have yet to find a way to do this. Part of the problem is that we basically inherited the toolbar stuff from Office, and the automation model on those commandbars don't allow for recreating the stock commandbars and buttons you see in VS .Net. You can add new command bars and controls and even move existing ones around. But there's no way to recreate them. At least nothing I could come up with after playing with the model for several weeks. Sincerely, Ed Dore [MSFT] This post is "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. What about devenv.xml under C:\Documents and Settings\"Current_User_Name"\Application Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\7.1? This is the user customized layout, if you delete this file the default devenv.xml from IDE folder will be loaded. Hi JD, Not sure what your question is here. The window layouts for the various IDE modes (like design mode, debug mode, etc) are stored in devenv.xml. When you delete it, we replace it with a default version of devenv.xml as you state. But that's mostly info about window layouts, not named commands. Named command information (the stuff that typically gets displayed on your toolbars and menus) is actually stored in CmdUI.prf. Neither file format is published, and one look at devenv.xml was enough to scare me away from it :-) The dev team answered this question when we first shipped VS 2002, saying that you couldn't save/restore the command bar state in VS .Net. Suffice to say, I wasn't really convinced. After a lot of experimentation and weeks of digging through the MSO codebase, I'm pretty much inclined to accept that as fact now. I proably should have just believed them in the first place, but was thinking I could figure out a way that maybe someone hadn't noticed. We basically reused the Office commandbar stuff, so my thinking was that there might have been something there I could leverage. Unfortunately, there really wasn't. At least, nothing I could find after spending a few weeks experimenting and code snooping, before giving up. On a better note though, we are working to fix this for VS 2005. Sincerely, Ed Dore [MSFT] This post is 'AS IS' with no warranties, and confers no rights. Free MagazinesGet these publications absolutely FREE for up to 12 months. There are no hidden fees and no obligation. Simply choose a title, complete the application form and submit it. Read more ...
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