We can open Visual Studio from Run window by typing “devenv” or “devenv.exe”. Since all the people are busy they can’t feel easy to find the shortcut to Visual Stuido from Programs in the Start bar. So we can open Visual Studio either 2003 or 2005 or 2008 by typing “devenv.exe” in Run window. This works fine when we have only one version of Visual Studio. Suppose if we have installed a new version of Visual Studio in addition to the older one, then when we type “devenv.exe” in Run window, only the lattest version of Visual Studio will be opened.
Suppose Visual Studio 2005 is installed on our pc, it works fine to open Visual Studio 2005 by typing “devenv.exe” from Run window. When we install Visual Studio 2008 in addition to Visual Studio 2005, typing “devenv.exe” in Run window will oepn Visual Studio 2008. This “devenv.exe” is a windows Registry entry maintained by Visual Studio Installer. If we still wish to open Visual Studio 2005 only by typing “devenv.exe” from Run window, just we need to follow the windows Registry tweak as shown below.
Steps to perform ~
1) Open registry editor (type “regedit.exe” in windows Run window)
2) Go to this path
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\
Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\devenv.exe