Is it possible to import Visual Studio Power Tools settings?

Question

Recently I've upgraded from VS2013 to VS2015. I've imported my settings file from 13 to 15. Now I would like to import my settings for the extension 'Visual Studio Power Tools'. Specifically the document well regex settings. I use this to color my tabs differently in each of my three environments, for each of the file types. I was able to find where these settings are stored thanks to this question:

Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools configuration settings

I've located these settings, but now my question is: how do I import them into VS2015? I'm not very experienced messing with the registry and don't want to muck something up. So far I was able to export the specific reg settings for my VS2013 colors. I also found the location of the color settings folder (in the registry) for vs2015. Is it possible to somehow take that .reg file I exported and import it into the settings for vs2015? Thanks for any help. It's greatly appreciated!

Edit: So it's been a week or so and I've gotten no responses to the question :( I suppose another way to ask this would be: "is there a way to import registry settings?"

Answer 1

In Visual Studio 2015 those settings are stored under a registry key:

 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\DialogPage

Assuming that the plugin didn't change the way its color settings are stored, it should be enough to edit the .reg file that you exported from Visual Studio 2013 in a chosen text editor (notepad.exe will do) and replace all ocurrences of \12.0\ (which is version number of VS2013) with \14.0\ (which is version number of VS2015).

Then you may open the .reg file to import settings.

By the way, if you would like to include registry settings like this in your backup plan, you might easily export registry keys from a command line with something like:

 regedit /e d:\VSPowerToolsColorSettingsBackup.reg "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\DialogPage"