How to change "devenv" command location?

Question

I have two versions of Visual Studio 2005/208 installed in my system (windows7), when I am opening Visual Studio with "devenv" command from "Run" window then its opening Visual Studio 2005 but I want when I open it using "devenv" command so Visual Studio 2008 should open by default.

How can I do this in windows.

Thanks

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Answer 1

You can follow these steps to open VS2008 from the command prompt using "devenv":

1. Open the Registry Editor by typing regedit on Run

2. Locate and open the following key:

   My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\devenv.exe
   

3. Currently for VS 2005, devenv.exe is mapped to

   C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
   

   If you want open VS 2008 from the command prompt, you must change the map to

   C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
   

   Just change to 8 to 9.0 to switch from VS 2005 to VS 2008, or VS 2008 to VS 2005.