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In VS2005, whenever you double click on pipeline configuration file (PCF), visual studio used to open pipeline editor. Sometimes you may face issue in opening if you open PCF in VS2008, you might see binary data as shown below.

Follow this simple step to get it opened in pipeline editor.

1. Open visual studio and open the project where pipelines exists (i.e., web application).
2. Right click on the PCF and click “Open with”.
3. A dialog will appear. Click add button.
4. In program name – give "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Commerce Server 2007\pipeeditor.exe" and in friendly name give “Microsoft Commerce Server Pipeline Editor” and press OK button.
   

From now onwards, if you want to open the PCF file. Click on the PCF file –> Open with –> select “Microsoft Commerce Server Pipeline Editor” .

The other option is to add pipeline as external tool.

• Open Visual studio. click on tools and click on “External tools”.
• Make you to give the settings as given in the image below and make sure you have $(ItemPath) in Arguments.
  

After doing changes, if you want to open the PCF file. Click on the PCF file –> Click on tools –> select “Microsoft Commerce Server Pipeline Editor” .

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