My visual studio xml editor is gone. So when I open for example a web.config file it's shown like a plain text file. If I right click -> Open with: the XML Editor option it's not longer there. Anyone had this problem before??. I've tried repairing the installation and uninstall/install but it didn't fixed it. Thanks for the help.
Visual Studio 2008 XML editor disappeared
visual-studio-2008
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Best Answer
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"
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).