AnkhSVN and Visual Studio 2007/2008/Orcas

June 13th 2007 • .NET (, , ) • 6,724 views • 13 responses

A newer registry file is available to provide AnkhSVN with Visual Studio 2008 and Vista support in one.

If you are using Visual Studio 2007/2008/Orcas/9.0 you will have found that AnkhSVN 1.01 doesn’t appear in the IDE.

Like many Visual Studio add-ins AnkhSVN should work just fine but won’t appear because the installer does not write an entry for it in the 9.0 section of the registry.

In this case the specific branches are:

32-bit HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\AddIns\Ankh
64-bit HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\AddIns\Ankh

All we need to do is export that section out, change the 8.0 to 9.0 and then run it back into the registry.

This technique should work for any other add-in’s you have that are only appearing in 2005.

If you installed AnkhSVN into the default folder try these registry files I have prepared for 32-bit or 64-bit machines.

[)amien

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13 responses  

  1. tyler on June 23rd, 2007

    didn’t work.

  2. Damien Guard on June 24th, 2007

    Tyler, try the registry download now available.

    [)amien

  3. Per Salmi on July 28th, 2007

    This registry trick doesn’t seem to work on VS 2008 Beta 2. Have you found a way to make it work in Beta 2?

  4. Damien Guard on July 29th, 2007

    I just did a clean install of VS2008 beta 2 and ran the 32-bit registry link above and it works perfectly.

    [)amien

  5. Mort on August 15th, 2007

    It works perfectly (VS 2008 Beta 2), thanx

  6. jpd on September 19th, 2007

    Looks like proper Orcas registry keys have been added to the installer on the AnkhSVN trunk – use a build from rev 2765 or beyond and you should be good to go out of the box.

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  8. HK on December 28th, 2007

    Just test the above tip with Visual Studio 2008 RTM and it worked perfectly. Thanks!

  9. Raphael Cangucu on January 9th, 2008

    Tks a lot man! Its works in vs 2008 professional!

  10. Paul V. on March 30th, 2008

    Well, it works, but every time that I enter in debug mode, a window with an ankh
    error pops up and it’s kind of annoying.

  11. Jason Poll - Yoopergeek on April 11th, 2008

    Worked great for me, thanks!

    I see from other comments that I could have just gotten the latest Ankh installer, but this seemed quicker. Thanks for the tip! (Also: I’ve linked to your post.)

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  13. Bert Huijben on July 14th, 2008

    AnkhSVN 2.0 is just released. It has full VS 2005 and VS 2008 support built in and works correctly on Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista.

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