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pabloari
Junior Member
Spain
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 Posted - Jan 02 2004 : 6:48:51 PM
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| Hello everybody, and happy new year!! I'm just new to this beta program and have installed build 1209. I've read somewhere else about the installation process rebuilding the menus, but what i wasn't expecting is a complete resetting of all the UI - toolbars included. I had some custom toolbars created, some buttons added and removed from the standard toolbars, even some button images redefined, and everything is lost for good. I find this quite annoying, but I can stand it if it happens just once. My question is: will it happen again everytime I install a new build over an older one? If this is the case, I'll have to try and save some registry settings to restore them after install to see if I can save something. |
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Erik Olofsson
Tomato Guru
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Posted - Jan 02 2004 : 6:53:06 PM
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It's probably a bad idea to try to save the settings, but if you want to try I think they are located under:
Documents and Settings\\%user%\\Local Settings\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\VisualStudio\\7.1\and
Documents and Settings\\%user%\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\VisualStudio\\7.1\ |
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LarryLeonard
Tomato Guru
USA
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pabloari
Junior Member
Spain
24 Posts |
Posted - Jan 02 2004 : 9:10:31 PM
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Thank you. The article about VC6 has some replies that give some hints about how to do it in VS .NET. I have tried it for installing build 1210. I just had to backup and restore devenv.xml and CmdUI.prf and everything worked fine. I guess the only problem could happen if there were significant changes in the VAX toolbar itself from one build to another, but that could probably be solved by reseting it with the option included in the VAX optios dialog.
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Stephen
Tomato Guru
United Kingdom
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Posted - Jan 05 2004 : 05:38:52 AM
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I still haven't installed VA X. Are you saying that installing it will reset all my toolbars, not just the VA one?
If this is true, I hope the WT team will find a way to avoid this. I once installed another plugin that did this. I was so angry that I uninstalled it immediately. |
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LarryLeonard
Tomato Guru
USA
1041 Posts |
Posted - Jan 05 2004 : 11:00:04 AM
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FWIW, I've installed every Beta version of VAX, and it's never messed with VC's toolbars (for me). Sounds like it did for pabloari, though... but I would guess he's the only one, or we would've all jumped on this thread. So, it's probably safe for you to try (and you can always backup your UI settings before you install it, right?  ).
(It did, however, dump all of my existing VA6 settings, which was a little annoying, but hey, it's a Beta...)
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WannabeeDeveloper
Tomato Guru
Germany
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Posted - Jan 05 2004 : 1:43:44 PM
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Nope, it did this everytime a new beta showed up (and I am also installing every beta since 1205)...
EVERYTIME my Toobars are gone, except Standard and another one which I cannot remeber right now. I'll tell you on the next build I'm installing...
I, too, live the way Larry does (hey, after all it's still a beta) and I am not angry at anyone, but I think this should be fixed in the first public-release (if possible)! |
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pabloari
Junior Member
Spain
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Posted - Jan 10 2004 : 01:11:53 AM
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Larry, I guess you're using VC6 only. I was talking about VS .NET, and I'm pretty sure it is happenning for everyone everytime. Please somebody correct me if I am wrong about this.
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