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Jun
2007

AnkhSVN and Visual Studio 2007/2008/Orcas

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 to “AnkhSVN and Visual Studio 2007/2008/Orcas”


  1. Gravatar 1 tyler Jun 23rd, 2007 at 20:06

    didn't work.

  2. Gravatar 2 Damien Guard Jun 24th, 2007 at 10:06

    Tyler, try the registry download now available.

    [)amien

  3. Gravatar 3 Per Salmi Jul 28th, 2007 at 12:07

    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. Gravatar 4 Damien Guard Jul 29th, 2007 at 11:07

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

    [)amien

  5. Gravatar 5 Mort Aug 15th, 2007 at 12:08

    It works perfectly (VS 2008 Beta 2), thanx

  6. Gravatar 6 jpd Sep 19th, 2007 at 10:09

    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.

  7. Gravatar 7 HK Dec 28th, 2007 at 10:12

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

  8. Gravatar 8 Raphael Cangucu Jan 9th, 2008 at 13:01

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

  9. Gravatar 9 Paul V. Mar 30th, 2008 at 08:03

    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.

  10. Gravatar 10 Jason Poll - Yoopergeek Apr 11th, 2008 at 19:04

    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.)

  11. Gravatar 11 Bert Huijben Jul 14th, 2008 at 13:07

    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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