Transferring Visual Studio 2005 External Tools to Orcas

Posted by Andrew on July 30, 2007

If you’re like me you may have created some custom External Tool commands in the Visual Studio Tools menu. Unfortunately, External Tools cannot be imported/exported using the Import and Export Settings option so if you’ve upgraded to Orcas, here’s how to copy them over:

  1. Jump into regedit and export the hive: \\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\External Tools
  2. Open up the exported .reg file and change the 8.0 to 9.0
  3. Double-click the .reg file to import the settings into the Orcas hive.

All done.

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  1. John-Daniel TraskNo Gravatar Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:53:22 CDT

    My install of Orcas transferred them automatically however I could see this being more useful for when you rebuild your machine.

    Good tip.

    - JD

  2. AndrewNo Gravatar Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:25:20 CDT

    Maybe you chose to migrate your old settings? I didn’t for some reason…

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