Exporting Settings

You export Visual Studio settings by selecting the Tools, Import and Export Settings command. This launches the Import and Export Settings Wizard, whose first dialog is shown in Figure 56.15.

Figure 56.15 Starting the Import and Export Settings Wizard.

From here you can decide what you want to do, in this case exporting settings, so leave unchanged the default option and then click Next. The second dialog enables deep selections over the available settings to export. Figure 56.16 shows the full list of available settings.

Figure 56.16 Selecting settings to export.

Basically you can export all settings available in the Options dialog and other settings such as code analysis, database tools, and general development settings. After you select the desired settings, click Next. In the next dialog you will be asked to specify a filename and the target folder. By default Visual Studio 2010 proposes a filename based on the current date/time and the user level settings folder as the target folder, as demonstrated in Figure 56.17.

Figure 56.17 Providing the target filename and folder for exporting settings.

At this point just click Finish to save your settings to disk and return to the IDE. For importing saved settings later, read the next section.