A few weeks ago as part of an upgrade to SQL Server Management Studio 2008R2, it detected that I has Visual Studio 2010 installed and became completely linked to it.
This is causing me two problems
- It is much slower starting up
- I have an ongoing problem in that Visual Studio fails to start after a windows upgrade that is trying to upgrade the .NET framework. (Generates a "Can't Create Window" dialog box and then exits). Last night an upgrade killed Visual Studio again, but also (presumably because SSMS has integrated with it) I can't start SSMS.
I have gone back to a restore point, so I can do some work, but (as I already discovered) shutting down the machine tries to install the upgrades again. There were 16 upgrades last night and I have no idea which one is the one that causes the problem.
What I would really like to do is disconnect SSMS from Visual Studio. Is this possible? If so how?
