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How to export Preferences in Visual Studio v.8.x for Mac?

VS on Windows, of course, has an Export / Import feature for your Settings, so they can be easily re-installed on new machines or shared with other team members.

Does VS for Mac have the same functionality? I can't find it.

As an alternative, where or what file are my Preference changes saved to? I searched in my $HOME/Library folders, but couldn't find anything obviously relevant.

I'm using VS for Mac 8.4.1.

This question was originally asked here by Scott Cadillac. This post got an interesting response by Matt Ward about were the preferences are stored: link

The accepted answer shows here the custom keybindings are stored

Solution

  • Take a look at /Users/YOURUSERNAME/Library/VisualStudio

    Preference files in file system

    It seems that Visual Studio uses the major versions like 7.0 and 8.0 to store the settings like shown in the screenshot. Minor versions like 8.2, 8.3 etc. only contain json files for the team memberships.