While I am generally a big fan of Perforce, the Perforce Source Code Control Plugin for Visual Studio .NET tends to drive me crazy. This is probably not so much the fault of Perforce, but rather a consequence of the brain-dead SCC plugin API provided by Visual Studio. So, here is, mainly for future reference by myself, a description of how to remove a SCC plugin from Visual Studio.
1. Launch RegEdit
2. Find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SourceCodeControlProvider
3. Delete all values under that key
4. Find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SourceCodeControlProvider\InstalledSCCProviders
5. Delete all values referencing the SCC plugin to remove (e.g., p4scc.dll)
Note: Of course you can also remove the Perforce SCC plugin via the Perforce installer. Provided that you still have it on your system...
Posted by guenter at March 12, 2005 02:47 PM