Settings Store Explorer

The Settings Store Explorer extension adds a tool window for viewing and editing the Visual Studio Settings Store. It's like the Windows Registry Editor, but for Visual Studio's internal settings.

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Getting Started

Note: This extension collects and transmits anonymized usage statistics to the extension author for product improvement purposes.

Access the Settings Store Explorer from the View menu. It's under "View > Other Windows >Settings Store Explorer":

Or you can find it in "Quick search":

The Tool Window has two panels. The left hand panel shows four trees: Config, User, Remote and Roaming. Each tree is a hierarchical collection of sub-collections and properties. The properties are shown in the right hand panel.

Modifying (editing) settings

Important: Modifying the Settings Store is like editing the Windows Registry. You should do it only if you know what you are doing. There is no "undo" facility if you make a mistake!

If you've used the Windows Registry editor (Regedit), this should be familiar.

You can edit a property of the User or Remote trees by double-clicking it in the right-hand pane. Note that you cannot edit values or collections under the Config or Roaming trees because they are read-only.

A new sub-collection or values can be created by right-clicking on a collection.

New properties can be created in a collection by right-clicking in a blank area of the right-hand panel.

A collection or property can be renamed by pressing F2.

A collection or property can be deleted by pressing Delete.

Pressing F5 refreshes the view.

Support

If you find a bug in this extension or have a feature request, please visit https://github.com/pharring/SettingsStoreExplorer to file an issue.