Where is the .vssettings for Visual Studio Express?

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Jonathan picture Jonathan · Sep 13, 2010 · Viewed 14.4k times · Source

Which directory is this file located in?

Reason I ask is, I want to back up my settings.

Answer

Michael Petrotta picture Michael Petrotta · Sep 13, 2010

In Visual Studio, go to Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Import and Export Settings. Your settings file is saved to the directory specified by the Automatically save my settings to this file box.

It was %userprofile%\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Settings\CurrentSettings.vssettings on my machine.

See How to: Share Settings Between Computers. And yes, it's a misleadingly-named option heading.

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