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Friday, January 29, 2010 1:40 PM | 1 vote

Is it possible to reset the formatting settings for C# without resetting the whole environment? Everything I've found so far implies I'll lose my hotkeys and other configuration.

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Monday, February 1, 2010 6:39 AM âś…Answered | 1 vote

Hi Echilon,

Is it possible to reset the formatting settings for C# without resetting the whole environment? Everything I've found so far implies I'll lose my hotkeys and other configuration.

Based on your description, it seems that you want to reset C# development settings. However, you still want to retain the settings of Hotkeys and some configuration.

Custom VS settings are stored in a .vssettings file. Thus, for your concern, I think that you might the following steps:

**Step 1: Export the settings that you want to remain into one .vssettings file
**

  1. Click Import & Export Settings on the Tools menu.
  2. Click the "Export selected environment settings" option.
  3. Check the settings that you want to retain in the tree view.
  4. Uncheck the settings that you don't want to keep any more.
  5. Click Next and save the settings file (as .vssettings), then click Finish.

Step 2: Reset all settings to C# development environment

  1. Click Import & Export Settings on the Tools menu.
  2. Click the "Reset all settings" option.
  3. Follow the wizard and select "Visual C# Development Settings"
    4. Click Finish.

Step 3: Import this .vssettings file to keep these settings

  1. Click Import & Export Settings on the Tools menu.
  2. Click the "Import selected environment settings" option.
    3. Click the "No, just import new settings..." option.
  3. Click the Browse button and navigate to where you saved the .vssettings file.
  4. Click Open to open the file and then click Finish to load it.

Hope this helps. If you have any concern, please feel free to let me know.

Best regards,
Yichun Chen
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Friday, February 5, 2010 3:03 AM

Hi Echilon,

Does the above suggestion work?

I've marked my reply as answer. If you have any concern, you can unmark my reply and let me know.

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Friday, February 5, 2010 8:31 AM

Unfortunately, I'd already reset the settings so I couldn't test it, but I imagine it would.

Friday, February 5, 2010 8:36 AM

Hi Echilon,

Thank you for your reply.

If you have similar issue next time, you can test it. Let me know if you have any concern. I'm willing to help you on that.

Have a great weekend.

Best regards,
Yichun Chen
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