Is there a plugin or some hidden feature in Visual Studio 2008 that allows for easy swapping between user settings files? Using the import/export wizard all the time gets a little bit tedious. It would be nice if there was a menu item called "Profiles" that you could set up to contain different profiles with different settings and change them on the fly.
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Best Answer
There is may be something else available but I have a neat way to achieve what you want.
In VS, Tools > External Tools (w.r.t. VS2005). Here you can write your commands and tools to be executed, using menu. Now, what you can do here is swap the setting files and restart VS instance. You can have as many as menus for profile 1...n
Update: Example1
Title: Set Profile 1
Command: %windir%\system32\replace.exe
Arguments: "C:\Documents and Settings\\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Settings\CurrentSettings.vssettings" "D:\Profile1\CurrentSettings.vssettings"
This should replace the settings with that of Profile 1. Also, add command to relaunch Devenv.