Launching Visual Studio from WebMatrix 2 opens wrong version

Question

I\'m using Microsoft WebMatrix 2 to work on a simple ASP.NET WebPages site. When you are in the Files view, there is a Visual Studio La

Answer 1

Thanks to Mike Brind for the technical details of the solution in his blog post WebMatrix Opens Wrong Version Of Visual Studio.

Basically you need to update these registry entries to point to the correct version of Studio. Remember to be careful when modifying the Windows Registry!

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.DTE\CLSID
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.DTE\CurVer

Running the commands below will backup the registry entries first and set the values to be Visual Studio 2012. You will need to open an administrator / elevated priviledge command prompt to execute them.

reg export HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.DTE %HOMEPATH%\Documents\VisualStudio.DTE-RegistryKeyBackup.reg
reg add HKCR\VisualStudio.DTE\CLSID /ve /d {059618E6-4639-4D1A-A248-1384E368D5C3} /f
reg add HKCR\VisualStudio.DTE\CurVer /ve /d VisualStudio.DTE.11.0 /f