Did you know… How to import and export your help doc and search Favorites

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Once you have created a set of help doc and search favorites, you can now share them among friends or share them across machines.

In Visual Studio, go to Tools – Import / Export Settings, and choose Export.  On the Choose Settings to Export page, expand “Help Filters and Favorites” and select “Favorites”. 

You’ll notice the warning icon that you could reveal information about yourself (read: you’re about to share URLs), so you might want to export just that category to a file, and open it in Visual Studio (file – open – File) to preview.  The VsSetting files are xml files, so you can use the “Format Document” command (Edit – Advanced – Format Document or Ctrl+K, Ctrl+D in general profile) to make the vssetting file easily readable.

Happy Visual Studio’ing!