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How to remove unneeded IBM Rhapsody from the integration of Microsoft Visual Studio

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Question

How do you remove an unneeded version of IBM Rhapsody from the Microsoft Visual Studio integration?

Cause

Multiple Rhapsody versions may be integrated to Microsoft Visual Studio if you have installed more than one version of Rhapsody in your machine. However, only one should exist to avoid potential problems with the Rhapsody and Visual Studio integration.

Answer

You should remove the unneeded integration of Rhapsody version and Visual Studio with below steps.

  1. Open option dialogue by click Tools > Option menu in Visual Studio

  2. Remove the unneeded Rhapsody version from Add-in File Paths setting in the environments > add-in/Macro security Options

  3. Remove the below references within the registry
    • [32 bit Visual Studio]
      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\AutomationOptions\LookInFolders
    • [64 bit Visual Studio]
      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\AutomationOptions\LookInFolders

Disclaimer

This solution contains information about modifying the system registry. Before making any modifications to the Microsoft Registry Editor, it is strongly recommended that you make a backup of the existing registry. For more information describing how to back up the registry, refer to Microsoft Knowledge Base article 256986

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Product Synonym

Rational Rhapsody

Document Information

Modified date:
27 May 2022

UID

swg21641457

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