How To Change Visual Studio Default Editor

Yes I know this sounds strange, but some times this can be very useful, For example, let say we are .NET developers but really addicted to NotePad++, and each time I click on File.CS file I want notepad++ to open it…

There are two ways to do it:

The Ugly Way – Registry

Under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0 find the “Default Editors” key (create if doesn't exists). Create another Key with the name of the File extension (Example :cs) you want to allocate to a custom editor, inside that key create:

String Key called “Custom” with the name of the Custom Editor (You can choose..)
DWORD called “Type” with value of 2  (Default)

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