If you have both Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 installed on your machine, and you uninstall one of them, you loose the file associations for Visual Studio.
To restore the File associations back, follow these steps:
Open Visual Studio > Go to Tools > Options. When the Options dialog opens, looks at the lower left corner for a ‘Show all Settings’ checkbox.
Select this checkbox > Go to General Page of Environment and click the ‘Restore File Associations’ button. Click OK when done.
Here’s a screenshot
Your file associations should be restored now.
In my version of VS2010, the "Show all settings" checkbox was not there, but I _was_ still able to click the "Restore file associations" button and have it work.
ReplyDeleteWorked great for me. In Windows 7 I had to run Visual Studio 2010 as an administrator (Right-click VS2010 icon and select run as administrator) to be able to restore the default settings. YMMV depending on how your machine and network permissions are setup.
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