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sthomas
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Posted - Sep 22 2005 :  1:54:14 PM  Show Profile
When Visual Assist starts up it spends some time parsing data files and getting itself all set up. This is all well and good, but in our build process we use a tool called FinalBuilder and have it configured to repeatedly open up .sln files and build certain projects. In this case I want Visual Assist disabled because I'm not actually interacting with Visual Studio at all. The Visual Assist setup process is slowing the build down considerably. With Visual Assist it takes about 7 1/2 hours. I uninstalled Visual Assist to see if that was a problem and the build process went down to only 4 1/2 hours.

So to sum things up I want Visual Assist enabled when I manually open up the .sln and start working, but I want it disabled when building with our build tool. Is there a command line option to keep Visual Assist disabled perhaps? I could reconfigure our build process to pass this option in whenever it starts up Visual Studio. Or does anyone have any other ideas? Thanks for any help.

- Steve

sean
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Posted - Sep 23 2005 :  9:14:43 PM  Show Profile
If you can configure the build process to run some reg scripts, you can disable VA prior to the load of the IDE.

For VS2003 - to disable VA:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\VisualStudio\\7.1\\Addins\\VAssistNET.Connect]
"LoadBehavior"=dword:00000001


to re-enable VA:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\VisualStudio\\7.1\\Addins\\VAssistNET.Connect]
"LoadBehavior"=dword:00000003


For vc6, to disable VA:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Devstudio\\6.0\\AddIns\\VisualAssist.DSAddin.1]
@="0"

to re-enable:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Devstudio\\6.0\\AddIns\\VisualAssist.DSAddin.1]
@="1"
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