Sunday, April 17, 2011

Where is the Visual Studio layout saved?

I am having problems with VS2008 moving the windows around and losing tabs when I close it and open again, or when I go from coding to debugging and back. (Yes, I know that it is supposed to save different layouts for coding and debugging). I have tried exporting my settings, but it informs me helpfully that

"Your settings were exported, but there were some errors. Error 1: Some command bar settings were not exported correctly due to an internal error."

Importing them again gives a similar error, and doesn't solve the problem. Does anyone know where VS saves the layout info? Or how to reinitialise the layout, without changing all my other settings? Thanks!

From stackoverflow
  • This is what you're after:

    Tools > Import & export settings

    You will need to make it work though. Maybe manually saving it from My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Settings

    Joel in Gö : this is what I tried that gave me the error message, and did not solve the problem.
    • Export your current settings. Don't choose to export the layout settings.
    • Reset IDE settings to your favorite
    • Import your exported settings
  • You might want to try Window > Reset Window Layout. This will reset the windows the way they were configured the last time you imported a layout.

    Joel in Gö : Thanks, tried it - no difference :(
  • It sounds like you might have a permissions problem trying to export the files.

    Another possibility that's a little less likely is that your *.suo files are being versioned, and so when you update your projects your layout for that project is updated as well.

  • Some of the layout information is stored in the registry for the current user.

    HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0

    If you're really having a lot of problems you can take the desparate step of deleting or renaming this key. Personally, I would rename it, start VS and see if that fixed my import export settings problem.

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