I'm using Visual Studio 2022 to develop an extension to Visual Studio 2019.

During the development, I want to deploy the extension to the Visual Studio 2019 experimental instance. In addition, I want to do it by default. (Which means that every developer don't need to configure it by itself)

To achieve it, I added the following PropertyGroup to the .csproj.user file of the extension project:

  <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Debug|AnyCPU'">
    <StartProgram>C:\Program Files %28x86%29\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe</StartProgram>
    <DeployTargetInstanceId>**The Instance Id**</DeployTargetInstanceId>
  </PropertyGroup>

There are some issues with this approach:

1. .csproj.user is a personal setting file that is ignored by git (And I want to keep it that way) which means that I need to configure it on any clone of the repo. (I tried to move the PropertyGroup to the .csporj which didn't work)
2. If I work with a different version of Visual Studio, the DeployTargetInstanceId will be different.