How to export Visual Studio 2010 extensions

Question

Hi all. I want to reinstall my Windows 7 and how can i export extensions from VS 2010 ? And after reinstaling import them?

Is it possible ?

I have lot of ext. will by easy way how to install them after VS reinstall. Thanks

Answer 1

There is no built-in mechanism for exporting the installed extensions for Visual Studio. The easiest way to approach this problem is to simply write down the list of extensions and reinstall them once you've got your machine up and running again.

One trick you could try though is the following. The binaries for many but not all extensions are stored under

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Extensions

You could simply zip up that directory, save it somewhere, re-install windows + vs and then unzip the file on the new machine. I do not know if that would work but it may be worth trying.