I haven’t posted in a few days as I have moved on from Visual Studio 2008 Professional to Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and have been neck deep in exploring the new IDE and features.
So far, I am loving it! I only had one small glitch that was strange and didn’t affect the operation: The registered owner and organization was listed as Microsoft.
How to change the Visual Studio 2010 registered owner and organization information:
Close all instances of Visual Studio 2010
Fire up RegEdit and:
On 32-bit Windows follow the below steps:
Edit the values under:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Registration\UserName
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\RegisteredOrganization
On a 64-bit Windows follow the below information:
Edit the values under:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Registration\UserName
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\RegisteredOrganization
When that is done, start the Visual Studio 2010 Command Prompt and run: DevEnv /setup
Let that run and when it is done, close the Command Prompt and Visual Studio 2010 and you should now see the correct user information listed.
Extensions, Templates and SDKs
I am loving the new suite of extensions, templates and SDKs available for VS2010. Here are the ones I am using so far:
So far I think Microsoft has done a great job with this version of Visual Studio.
Good job guys!