Reassociate files types for visual studio 2012

visual-studio-2010 file associations
Prof picture Prof · Apr 14, 2013 · Viewed 9.6k times · Source

I've had an install of 2012 for a while, but I've had to also just install VS 2010. As expected, all my file associations now point to VS2010 and the icons aren't so intuitive. Without doing each file manually through the explorer menu, how can I quickly revert/change the associations back to VS2012?

Answer

NieFan picture NieFan · May 17, 2013

Open VisualStudio - Tools > Options.

Then go to General Page of Environment and click the Manage File Associations button.

A Window in the controlpanel will be opened(Control Panel\Programs\Default Programs\Set Default Programs\Set Program Associations)

.Select Extensions you want to associate to VisualStudio2012 and click the Save button.

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