Thursday, February 18, 2010

Changing the default locations for SQL Server Studio 2005 and BIDS 2005...

I wanted to change my default location for SQL Server Studio 2005 and BIDS (Business Intelligence Development Studio) 2005 and ran across this post...

http://tgrignon.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/sql-server-management-studio-project-path/

So when I dug into the registry, that worked for SQL Server Studio (mine was set up under Shell, not ShellSEM)... then I searched around for BIDS and for version 2005.  That is located here

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0

So to sum it up...
Change the default path for SQL Server Management Studio here:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\Shell

and change the default path for Business Intelligence Development Studio here:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0

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