Command line to start visual studio and disable add ins/Extensions for that instance

Question

I am writing a Visual Studio template wizard. And to debug it I have it start a new instance of Visual Studio 2010.

My Visual Studio 2010 takes a good while to start up

Answer 1

Try safemode

devenv.exe /safemode

which

Starts Visual Studio in safe mode, and loads only the default environment and services, and shipped versions of third-party packages.

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xee0c8y7.aspx