vs2008 team system does not open vsp files

Question

I use Visual Studio team system 2008 (on Win7 64bit)
I run the profiler tool (VSPerfCmd) that generates a .vsp file.
Usually I used to double click on it, and it used to be opened in VS2008.

After a disk crash, I had to reinstall all my software, and since, VS2008 does not open the .vsp files. it simply open it as a binary.

I can generate an excel file with the following command, but this is hardly enough - as VS2008 (Team System) has a lot of capabilities, like looking and navigating in all descendants of a function (to find performance hogs)
    vsperfreport /summary:all /packsymbols c:\Log1.vsp

Pleas help!
Dudu

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Dudu Arbel

Answer 1

Hi Dudu,

Thank you for posting in the MSDN forum.

Just to make this issue clearly, it worked well before, but you couldn’t open it after you re-install the VS2008, am I right? I try to check it in my VS, I could open it well.

Whether all .vsp files have the same issue? I mean that you could try to profiler your app again in the command line/ in the VS IDE, and generate the new .vsp file, and then open it again, but if it has the same issue, I doubt that it is related to your VS.

1. Please make sure that you install the VS2008 sp1.
2. Run the following steps, check it again.

Devenv.exe /ResetSettings: Restores the IDE's default settings, optionally resets to the specified VSSettings file.

Devenv.exe /ResetAddin: Removes commands and command UI associated with the specified Add-in.

Devenv.exe /ResetSkipPkgs: Clears all SkipLoading tags added to VSPackages.

  3. If still no help, I suggest you try to repair/re-install your VS.

Best Regards,

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