Shared Text Editor Settings in VS2015

[hvbill]

Hi!

We would like to share the text editor settings (like tab and indent size and formatting) between all our developers. But I don’t find a way to export the “C/C++ (VisualGDB)” settings from VS2015. Can you please help me?

Best Regards

Daniel

[support]

Hi,

Thanks for reporting this. We have rechecked the VS2015 setting exporting logic and it indeed looks like it skips the custom language service settings (such as VisualGDB) by default. As fully fixing this would require a relatively large investigation/change on our side, we would instead suggest using one of the workarounds below:

• First of all, you can change the values via registry (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\ApplicationPrivateSettings\TextEditor\C/C++ (VisualGDB))
• Alternatively, if you are using the VisualGDB’s team settings engine, we could extend it to share the common Clang IntelliSense settings

Let us know if you would like us to extend the team settings engine to handle this.

[hvbill]

The registry workaround will most likely work for us.

Is the behaviour different in VS2017?

[support]

Hi,

Unfortunately it’s a bit more complicated. VS2017 uses private registry files that need to be programmatically mounted before you can make modifications to them. We could easily provide example code for doing that if you would like to try it out.

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