How to remove hidden plugins in Visual Studio

Question

I have a plugin for VS 2008. I cannot figure out how to remove it. This is a fluid xml studio. The program itself cannot be deleted, because it is not listed in the Add / Remove Programs folder and is missing from the application for removal.

Answer 1

Ok, that’s what I did. I delete the folder c:\Program Files\<bad plugin>

Then ran: Devenv /ResetSkipPkgs

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms241276%28VS.80%29.aspx

Answer 2

Tools | Add-in manager

looks like he

Answer 3

That was in VS 2012, after we tried the other answers here ...

Try to remove it from the add / remove programs. Perhaps you still have to clean up after that in Regedit ... as an example, I deleted HGSCC after it was deleted by searching the registry for "hgscc". Some of the places where I found it ... HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0_Config\InstalledProducts\ HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0_Config\Packages HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\...

as well as the guid clsid section. Visual Studio stopped complaining about this after I deleted all the registry folders in which all this garbage was, the deletion should be deleted. Make sure you have a good look.