data generation plan dgen file not saving

Question

I have database project with a data generation plan file name xyz.dgen . 
i made  xyz.dgen file settings changed and clicked generate data it worked fine. But the problem is when i close the xyz.dgen file and reopen it the changed settings vanished. 
But i want to keep the previous changes i made to the xyz.dgen file every time i open. 
Any Solution will be highly recommended.

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jahirhstu

Answer 1

See if this webpage helps.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd193243.aspx

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jdweng

Answer 2

Hi Jahirhstu,

Welcome to the MSDN forum.

Do you mean that when you can not save the changes to your xyz.dgen file? Both "Ctrl+S" and File-> Save xyz.dgen can not save your files? If so, it is a Visual Studio setting error and you may try these steps to reset Visual Studio:

steps to see if these can help and then show us more details:

1. Open Visual Studio Command Prompt (2010) under Start menu -> All Programs -> Microsoft Visual Studio 2010  -> Visual Studio Tools (run it with Administrator privilege: right-click the program -> Run as administrator);
2. Try some devenv switches in command prompt:
   1. Run devenv /Resetsettings to eliminate the cause of corrupted settings.
   2. Run devenv /ResetSkipPkgs in Command Prompt.
   3. Run devenv /Safemode to see if you can apply it correctly. This can eliminate the possibility that third party Add-ins or packages are causing problems.
3. Reboot the machine in Safe Mode. This can isolate some third party application/driver's interference.
4. Switch and try a new user account. This can rule out the possibility of corrupted user profile.

If not so, please try to save your files before you close it.

Thanks,

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Barry Wang [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 3

Thanks Barry,

No the problem is not what you are thinking about.

xyz.dgen saved successfully.

if i closed the xyz.dgen file and open again it doesn't show the saved changes.

Suppose :

I have a custom generator named : ForeignKeyCustomGenerator

I changed one of my table foreign key column Generator(Default ForeignKey)  to ForeignKeyCustomGenerator.

I saved the xyz.dgen file and closed.

If i opened the file again the foreign key column set to default Generator(ForeignKey) instead of ForeignKeyCustomGenerator. But i don't want that.

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jahirhstu

Answer 4

Hi,

Would you please send this feedback to Microsoft connect website? product team will evaluate it carefully.

Refer to: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/

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Forrest Guo | MSDN Community Support | Feedback to manager