Visual-studio – how to write Russian in resource file

A colleague found this MS auto-uninstall tool which has successfully uninstalled VS2008 for me and saved me hours of work!!

Hopefully this might be useful to others. Doesn't speak highly of MS's faith in their usual VS maintenance tools that they have to provide this as well!

The only issue that I can see surviving a install/reinstall is a supressed package load failure. Try running the following from a command shell. I'm assuming that Visual Studio is installed at the location "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0"

"c:\program files\microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\common7\ide\devenv.cmd" /ResetSkipPkgs

This will reset all skipped package suppression.

If this works then at some point in time when starting VS or loading a file you were presented with a crytpic dialog that said "Some XML Package failed to load ... " and had a yes/no option. Choosing yes will prevent VS from loading that package in the future and hence preventing the XML editor from loading.

I believe this value is stored within a user registry hive. So it's possible that it would survive uninstall. If this works please let me know as I'd like to file a bug.

Edit I was able to confirm with the owner of this /ResetSkipPkgs feature that this issue will be fixed in the next version of Visual Studio (post VS2008).