Command line to start visual studio and disable ad

Question

I am writing a Visual Studio template wizard. And to debug it I have it start a new instance of Visual Studio 2010.

My Visual Studio 2010 takes a good while to start up. I believe that this is due the the add-ins and extensions that I have installed for visual studio.

I would rather not go disable them all (I really like them). So I was hoping there was a way to disable them via the command line.

Just run a clean Visual Studio instance.

Is there a way to do that?

Answer 1

Try safemode

devenv.exe /safemode

which

Starts Visual Studio in safe mode, and loads only the default environment and services, and shipped versions of third-party packages.

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xee0c8y7.aspx