"Olumide" <50295@web.de> wrote in message
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> Would someone please tell me where (which directory) Visual
> studio .NET 2003 configuration files are stored and also what they
> look like. Is it just one file or a directory? I'm trying to restore
> my installation. I'm sure (or should I say hope) the config files are
> somewhere on my system.
>
> All I'd like to restore are my library, source, include paths.
>
> On Jul 9, 8:08 pm, Olumide <50...@web.de> wrote:
>> So the techies decided its time to upgrade our network drive/portal
>> thingy and after which, I crank up Visual Studio .NET 2003 only to be
>> asked to migrate my Visual Studio .NET 2002 settings as though I'd
>> just installed VS .NET 2003 (by the way, I never had VS .NET 2002
>> installed -- don't even know if it existed).
>>
>> Now my carefully tweaked settings, libraries, dlls, paths, etc are
>> gone :( -- I'm sure they are alive somewhere in the drive, but Visual
>> Studio can't find the files from which its supposed to load my
>> settings.
>>
>> How and where do I start the restoration? It will take days to
>> reconfigure my settings, and I don't want to try. If it helps, I have
>> the following directories:
>>
>> On network drive:
>> H:\Profile\Application Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio -- contains
>> directories: "7.0", "7.1", and "Recent".
>>
>> On local drive:
>> C:\Documents and Settings\my_name.newportal\Application Data\Microsoft
>> \VisualStudio
>> C:\Documents and Settings\my_name.oldportal\Application Data\Microsoft
>> \VisualStudio
>>
>> both contain a directory "7.0"
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> - Olumide
>
>

> Visual Studio Settings are stored in a .vssettings file that is
> usually found in the User Documents folder for the user that is
> running Visual Studio. The folder under "My Documents" is "Visual
> Studio\Settings"

On Jul 9, 8:08 pm, Olumide <50...@web.de> wrote:
> So the techies decided its time to upgrade our network drive/portal
> thingy and after which, I crank up Visual Studio .NET 2003 only to be
> asked to migrate my Visual Studio .NET 2002 settings as though I'd
> just installed VS .NET 2003 (by the way, I never had VS .NET 2002
> installed -- don't even know if it existed).
>
> Now my carefully tweaked settings, libraries, dlls, paths, etc are
> gone :( -- I'm sure they are alive somewhere in the drive, but Visual
> Studio can't find the files from which its supposed to load my
> settings.
>
> How and where do I start the restoration? It will take days to
> reconfigure my settings, and I don't want to try. If it helps, I have
> the following directories:
>
> On network drive:
> H:\Profile\Application Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio -- contains
> directories: "7.0", "7.1", and "Recent".
>
> On local drive:
> C:\Documents and Settings\my_name.newportal\Application Data\Microsoft
> \VisualStudio
> C:\Documents and Settings\my_name.oldportal\Application Data\Microsoft
> \VisualStudio
>
> both contain a directory "7.0"
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Olumide

On 13 Jul, 12:28, Rory Becker <RoryBec...@newsgroup.nospam> wrote:
> > Visual Studio Settings are stored in a .vssettings file that is
> > usually found in the User Documents folder for the user that is
> > running Visual Studio. The folder under "My Documents" is "Visual
> > Studio\Settings"
>
> Isn't this the VS2005 stuff?
>
> Personally I some old installs of the Express stuff here
>
> The OP was asking about VS2003 not VS2005

"Rory Becker" <RoryBecker@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
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>> Visual Studio Settings are stored in a .vssettings file that is
>> usually found in the User Documents folder for the user that is
>> running Visual Studio. The folder under "My Documents" is "Visual
>> Studio\Settings"
>
> Isn't this the VS2005 stuff?
> Personally I some old installs of the Express stuff here
>
> The OP was asking about VS2003 not VS2005
>
> or did I miss something?
>
> --
> Rory
>
>