[help] how do i completely unregister/uninstall PRO from VS ?

Hi, i posted about syntax highlighting getting broken with chirpy installed before.

However, like before, even with chirpy installed, highlighting worked perfectly up until the moment that i activated WW as PRO version.

Evidently there is something going on about how WW registers itself as a custom tool provider that conflicts with how chirpy works, and not just the plain presence of chirpy.

So i would like to know how to remove all references of WW as a custom tool in VS, and how to remove my registration info from my PC/VS so i can go back to the trial version, so i can syntax highlighting back.

Thanks, Robert

Hi Robert,

The only way to un-Pro your copy of Web Workbench is to go into the registry and delete your licence. The registry path you need is:

HKCU\Software\Mindscape\Licensing

Under this key you will see a value named "WebWorkbench" -- delete this value and Web Workbench will go back to functioning as the free edition.

Note this will not automatically remove the Less compilation custom tool from files that already have it -- to do that, you must select the file, go into the Properties grid, and delete the Custom Tool setting.

Thanks, did this and even went through all mindscape/.less values in regedit, but it didn't restore intellisense :(

Actually it seems that the first time you create a less file (chirpy installed) everything works fine, but when you reboot VS, from then on, all stays broken until you unload chripy from VS.

I don't really see why chirpy should break intellisense ..since it offers no intellisense by itself, and it only minifies files named *.chirp.less by default, so it doesn't even try to minify the files either.

...weird, weird, weird :(