Switching Visual Studio user – Visual Studio Premium

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I want to switch the Visual Studio user but I got the following error.

We were unable to establish the connection because it is configured
for user user@mydoamin.de but you attempted to connect
using user boas.enkler@mydomain.de. To connect as a different user
perform a switch user operation. To connect with the configured
identity just attempt the last operation again.

I also tried to reset the user data like described here in this post but nothing changed. I also reinstalled Visual Studio and that didn't help.

Any hint?

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Best Answer

There are two workable options I now use (in order):

As of Visual Studio 2013 Release 4

Ensure you login correctly using the current user ID it expects first.
Then logout from the Account Settings option on the account drop-down menu (top right, usually showing your name)
Now login again using the other account

It appears VS simply does not like to login to a different account while you are already logged in. Just make it happy first :)

Fallback option: You need to run `devenv /resetuserdata` at the command prompt.

To run the “switch user operation”:

Close all instances of VS2013 (Check Task Manager to make sure devenv.exe is not running).
Open a Developer Command Prompt for VS2013.
Type devenv /resetuserdata and wait for it to complete,.
Restart VS2013 and follow the usual “sign in” steps (with the desired account).

This process clears the same registry keys (and a few more) suggested by other solutions.

Visual Studio with C# key bindings

To answer the specific question, in C# you are likely to be using the C# keyboard mapping scheme, which will use these hotkeys by default:

Ctrl+E, Ctrl+D to format the entire document.

Ctrl+E, Ctrl+F to format the selection.

You can change these in menu Tools → Options → Environment → Keyboard (either by selecting a different "keyboard mapping scheme", or binding individual keys to the commands "Edit.FormatDocument" and "Edit.FormatSelection").

If you have not chosen to use the C# keyboard mapping scheme, then you may find the key shortcuts are different. For example, if you are not using the C# bindings, the keys are likely to be:

Ctrl + K + D (Entire document)

Ctrl + K + F (Selection only)

To find out which key bindings apply in your copy of Visual Studio, look in menu Edit → Advanced menu - the keys are displayed to the right of the menu items, so it's easy to discover what they are on your system.

_{(Please do not edit this answer to change the key bindings above to what your system has!)}

How to disable all caps menu titles in Visual Studio

Richard Banks posted about a registry key for just such a tweak.

Visual Studio 2012 (Full)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\General
DWORD: SuppressUppercaseConversion
Value: 1

In PowerShell, you can run this to set that registry key and the uppercase goes away.

Set-ItemProperty -Path HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\General -Name SuppressUppercaseConversion -Type DWord -Value 1

Visual Studio Express 2012

The above registry key is not the one that will affect Visual Studio Express 2012 RC. A comment by FormatC showed up on Banks post about the key for Express. You can find that key mentioned in Mike Gleason's answer or run the following PowerShell command to set it.

Set-ItemProperty -Path HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\VSWinExpress\11.0\General -Name SuppressUppercaseConversion -Type DWord -Value 1

Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web

Set-ItemProperty -Path HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\VWDExpress\11.0\General -Name SuppressUppercaseConversion -Type DWord -Value 1

Visual Studio 2013

Replace 11.0 with 12.0 in the registry keys above.

Visual Studio 2015 Developer Preview

Replace 11.0 with 14.0 in the registry keys above.