Since I am super busy in my work :P, running devenv.exe from Run menu instead of finding the shortcut of VS 2003 in Start Menu can save me a lot of time. When Microsoft distributed a hundred versions of Whidbey I gladly installed/uninstalled the latest version for checking its new features [along with sending a thousand error report to microsoft .. ]:-))… Unfortunately, after UNINSTALLING Whidbey from my machine I was unable to call “devenv.exe” to launch Visual Studio 2003 coz some of register keys have been changed when I installed Whidbey.So after a lot of effort I found out how to fix this and I am sharing it with you all
Steps to perform ~
1) Open registry editor (regedit.exe)
2) Go to this path
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\
Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\devenv.exe”
3) Check the value of this key.. [ you will see this string "
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\
Common7\IDE\devenv.exe"]
4) Change this string to
“C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\
Common7\IDE\devenv.exe”5)
Done!!
Check : Type “devenv” in run menu… Wow! Visual Studio 2003 is opening…
Hope you will find it useful..
Hi bro,
This post is excellent :)
Now i don’t have to manually D-C on MVS 2005 every time i want to launch it. (because I have 2003 and 2005 in my machine and default is set to 2003 and so i can’t type devenv in run. its really annoying to D-C on 2005 :P )
Great post. ^-^
Link | June 23rd, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Very Useful post.
Thanks
Link | July 17th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
I had a similar problem with VS2005 and VS2008 (VS2005 was loading upon using devenv.exe).
Thanks!
Link | November 20th, 2008 at 4:55 am
^”I had a similar problem with VS2005 and VS2008 (VS2005 was loading upon using devenv.exe).
Thanks!”
And how did you solve that issue?????
Link | November 24th, 2008 at 10:04 am
In 64bit XP this path for devenv.exe is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\devenv.exe
Link | November 24th, 2008 at 11:01 am