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Jeremy Thompson
Jeremy Thompson

Reputation: 65544

Programmatically change Visual Studio Options

How do I programmatically set and unset Visual Studio Options?

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I have done the research and troubleshooting and apparently it is not possible.

Here is a question I answered specifying why it's not possible to programmatically click buttons in the VS Options Dialog: Programmatically reset VisualStudio shortcuts.

I don't need to click a button, I need to change a boolean setting as per the screenshot.

Might there be any undocumented methods I can use?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1402

Answers (2)

Peter Macej
Peter Macej

Reputation: 5577

Just use:

dte.Properties["Debugging", "General"].Item("EnableExceptionAssistant").Value=false;

Most of the options can be retrieved and set this way. See also:

Options Page, Debugging Node Properties

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

Upvotes: 4

Ryan Thomas
Ryan Thomas

Reputation: 1982

You'd have to write code to change the following registry key.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\ApplicationPrivateSettings\_metadata\revisions\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Platform

TitleCaseMenus is the node you're after :)

You may need to change the Visual Studio version number depending on what you have installed.

Edit: For your new pic the registry key is here: HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\Debugger\UseExcept‌​ionHelper

Upvotes: 2

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