It is possible to prevent the IDE Tools from being loaded automatically when starting Visual Studio.
To does this, please follow these steps:
1) in the Visual Studio IDE, select the Options ... menu item in the DevExpressmenu or press the Ctrl+shift+alt+o ke Y combination to invoke the Options Dialog.
2) In the same tree view, the navigate to the "Core" folder.
3) Select the Startup Options page.
Note that this page is Expert, and would only be visible if the level combo on the lower-left of the Options dialog i s set to Expert.
4) Activate the "Load Manually" option and click OK:
Another-on-the-tweak your Windows Registry key manually (via the Regedit.exe tool):
Hkey_current_user\software\developer Express\coderush for vs\%yourproductversion%\loadmanually
Where%yourproductverions% is a version of the DevExpress IDE Tools that has installed, and the "loadmanually" is the key of type string which value needs to be modified. Set the value to ' True ' (without quotes) if you would like to prevent the automatic loading of the IDE Tools at Visual Stu Dio startup. Note, if the registry key doesn ' t exist you need to create it manually using the Registry Editor.
How to temporally disable IDE tools (load Manually)