Visual Studio does not let me drag drop items into it?

Question

Using Visual studio 2010 I got problems when double-clicking, for example a config file (*.config). Visual Studio would open but give me a error message about parameters. If

Answer 1

I had this problem as well because I was opening VS in admin mode and the file explorer by default is not in admin mode.

Ended up creating a PowerShell and bat script to start explorer in admin mode every time the computer start.

admin.bat file:

@ECHO OFF
PowerShell.exe -Command "& {Start-Process PowerShell.exe -ArgumentList '-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File ""%~dpn0.ps1""' -Verb RunAs}"

admin.ps1 file:

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
start-process explorer.exe

The files just have to be in the same folder. Doesn't matter what they are called. Run the .bat file to restart explorer in admin mode or just create a shortcut to the .bat file in the startup folder ;) the script and ps1 file can be hidden.