Did you know… You can save your list of External Tools to a file? - #250

In an earlier tip, I mentioned how you can create and manage your list of External Tools. 

You can save this list to a file if you ever want to just share that list with others or ever need to just get back your external tools list.

Go to Tools – Import / Export Settings – Export, and check the All Settings – General – External Tools List checkbox. 

Now any of the customizations that you’ve done in the Tools – External Tools list will be saved out to the file of your choice.

Also, the information is human-editable in the .vssettings file. For example, I added the notepad application as an external tool.  Now I could easily set the “Prompt for Arguments” to false, if i needed to.

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• Anonymous
  July 01, 2008
  PingBack from http://blog.a-foton.ru/2008/07/did-you-know%e2%80%a6-you-can-save-your-list-of-external-tools-to-a-file-250/

• Anonymous
  July 02, 2008
  Wow... That seems like a decidedly less than valuable feature.

• Anonymous
  July 02, 2008
  Can we export from 2k5, import into 2k8?

• Anonymous
  January 09, 2009
  本篇包括tip241-tip250 http://www.watch-life.net/visual-studio/visual-studio-2008-tip-day-25.html #241...