Thursday, June 17, 2010

Changing the registration info for Visual Studio 2010

I just had enough of Visual Studio displaying the wrong username and organization (no I don’t work at Microsoft) in the splash screen and in Help –> About. After a little searching, I came across this blog post by Stuart Thompson, that explains the process in detail.

The only thing I want to add is that you should wait for the “devenv.exe” process to exit before trying to launch VS2010 again. This is in the step where you run “devenv /setup”. I used Task Manager to make sure that the devenv.exe process finished before starting VS2010, and it worked well for me. I can’t say that you will run into problems if you don’t wait though, because I haven’t tried that.

Oh and btw, it might be a good idea to backup your settings (by exporting them) before you start, just in case.

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