Visual Studio settings: includes various custom settings for the integrated development environment (IDE) based on different types of development activities

Visual Studio settings

The settings in Visual Studio include various custom settings for the integrated development environment (IDE) based on different types of development activities, as well as your own custom settings. These custom settings include displaying or hiding specific tool windows, window layout, menu command location, menu name, available templates in the "New Project" dialog box, predefined shortcut keys, and help "filter, and so on.

With the help of settings, you can:

• Create a copy of activity settings that can be used by other computers

• Share your activity settings with other developers

• Allows all members in the Working Group to use the same settings in the selected area (such as the editor) without removing personal custom settings in other areas.

What are settings?

The settings are customized for IDE, including window layout, Editor default settings, and available dialog box options. You can save, export, import, or reset these custom settings, to make ide more handy.

Activity settings are composed of two parts: one is pre-defined custom settings, which are selected for installation When Visual Studio is started for the first time. the vssettings file. The other part is any subsequent custom settings you have made to the IDE. Activity settings are saved in the currentsettings. vssettings file by default.

For more information about available pre-defined settings in Visual Studio, see the following topics.

topic	location
Visual Basic settings	Visual Basic Concepts
Visual Basic settings	Visual Basic Concepts
Visual C # ide settings	Visual C # Development Environment Reference
Visual C # ide settings	Visual C # Development Environment Reference
Visual c ++ settings	Introduction to Visual C ++
Visual c ++ settings	Introduction to Visual C ++
Visual J # settings	Visual J # getting started
Visual Web Developer settings	Visual Web Developer
Visual Web Developer settings	Visual Web Developer
General development settings	Visual Studio-configure the development environment
General development settings	Visual Studio-configure the development environment

 

How does setting work?

When Visual Studio is started for the first time, the system requires you to select a set of predefined settings that suit your development habits. If you upgrade to another version of Visual Studio, you can also use the "my previous settings" option to apply the settings of other versions. This setting set is the first element of the activity setting. Change the settings tracked by Visual Studio each time (for example, change the annotations in the editor ).CodeThe changes are automatically saved to currentsettings. vssettings along with the predefined settings. In this way, the system automatically applies your activity settings each time Visual Studio is started.

In some cases, you can change the settings of an application that is part of a predefined set. For example, if the setting set simplifies the "options" dialog box by hiding pages, you can select "show all settings" to manually display these pages. In other cases, the predefined settings cannot be rewritten unless different sets are applied. For a detailed list of custom settings contained in the predefined settings, see Visual Studio settings. For information about different sets of applications, see How to: Change selection settings.

You can use either of the following methods to apply the settings: use the new settings to completely replace the activity settings, or replace some activity settings. Import the. vssettings file that contains all possible setting categories, or apply another set of settings to completely replace your activity settings. Import only contains the set category subset. the vssettings file, or in. in the vssettings file, if you cancel the selection of certain setting categories, only the selected settings are applied and the activity settings of other categories are not modified.

Help and settings

The predefined settings Set also provides "help" for custom settings. Set the default "how to implement" page in "help. The selected "how to implement" Page filters content that appears in the "directory" and "Index", and provides customized content on the "how to implement" tab. You can change the "how to implement" page of the current activity from the "how to implement other" drop-down list.

Settings and security

If you share the settings with others, some setting categories may contain information about the security of your personal or your computer. Conversely, if you plan to import settings provided by others, you also need to pay attention to the categories that may have security issues in the settings file. An icon appears next to each category with potential security issues. These settings include:

• Favorites

• Import and Export settings

See Other resources

Settings

Http://msdn.microsoft.com/zh-cn/library/zbhkx167 (vs.80). aspx

 

 

PS: As mentioned above: when developing the VB. NET environment, if the current system defaults to VB. NET, debugging options such as debug and release are not available in the vs menu .... If you need these two debugging items, you shouldTools> Import, Export Settings> select C # To start the loading environment by default...