save Tools->Options programmatically

Question

Greetings.

Is there a way to programmatically save the user's changes, made in that dialog ("Source Control" node, if specifically)? The problem is that if I change "Current source control plug-in" and since that time Visual Studio crashes -- this change wouldn't be saved... This is pretty strange because if I change "Environment->General->Show status bar" option -- it became saved immediately.

Best regards...

Answer 1

Hi Hunter,

If you want to programmatically to get/set the property value under Tools->Properties, you can use  EnvDTE.DTE.Properties method, which returns an indexed EnvDTE.Properties object. For example:

 // DTE dte 
EnvDTE.Properties txtEdCS = dte.get_Properties( "TextEditor", "CSharp" ); 

For more information, you can refer to the following article:

• HOWTO: Getting properties from the DTE.Properties collection of Visual Studio .NET
• DTE Properties Collections

But if you just want to keep the the user's setting in Tools->Properties when next time open, Visual Studio will save these settings, you don't need to write some code to save these.

If I misunderstood you, or you have any questions, please let me know.

Best Regards,
Nancy

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Answer 2

I know how to change properties. I don't know how to save those changes without closing Visual Studio.

As I've wrote: if I change source control plug-in and kill Visual Studio next time there will be previous plug-in selected...

Answer 3

Most (if not all) of the Tools.Options page settings are read during IDE startup, and saved during IDE shutdown. I don't believe there is a way to force these settings to be persisted (typically to the registry) outside of shutting down the IDE.

Sincerely,

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Ed Dore