Tool to view the contents of the Solution User Options file (.suo)

Question

Are there any free tools available to view the contents of the solution user options file (the .suo file that accompanies solution files)?

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Answer 1

I'm not aware of a tool, but you could write a Visual Studio extension to list the contents without too much work.

If you download the Visual Studio SDK, it has some straightforward examples that you can use. Find one that looks appropriate (like maybe the Toolwindow, if you want to give yourself a graphical display) and lift it (for your own personal use, of course).

What makes it easy is that the Package class which you implement in any VS extension, already implements the IVSPersistSolutionOpts, as aku mentioned. So you can just call the ReadUserOptions method on your package and inspect the contents.