Eric Wise

Business & .NET

Visual Studio 2005 - Recent Projects

Why is there not a hook in the GUI to manage this? Anyways, if you want to clear out the garbage from your list just fire up ye olde regedit and go here:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectMRUList

Published May 02 2006, 08:28 AM by Eric Wise

Comments

Jeff Parker said:

I rbought this exact same thing up to the MSFT after 1.0 (2002) came out. I had a ton of sample code projects and stuff I didn't really need in there. I even suggested a favorites project list to add projects that were long running. In the corporate world at least I have a project that every 6 months or so the customer requests a change or addition to the program. This could be something simple minor like a change to the style sheet, which is in source control. Much easier to just open the project open the stylesheet make the change then test and then upload the stylesheet and check everything back in than try to change the style sheet on the live server which then gets overwritten 6 months later. This would be a favorite project. However it scrolls off my list every now and then as I write sample code and tests and usergroup demos and so on. Another thing why is this in the registry. It seems that the VS team forgot about System.Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData); Why wouldn't they just put a nice XML file in there.

# May 2, 2006 10:47 AM

Confessions of a Webgypsy said:

I hate creating a test app or a coding sandbox and then having that show up in my recent projects list...

# May 2, 2006 12:39 PM

Dave Balzer said:

I hate creating a test app or a coding sandbox and then having that show up in my recent projects list...

# May 2, 2006 12:39 PM

Mark Zukiwsky said:

On Friday I asked myself the same question and found this:

http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/VSProjectListEditor.asp

It was developed for VS7 but all you need to do is find the "PROJECT_MRU_PATH" string in the "MainForm.cs" file, change the version number to "8.0", recompile, and you there you go. Works perfect.

There's another Project list manager posted on the codeproject site but it needed more than a couple of minutes work.

# May 2, 2006 3:26 PM

Kalyani Sundaresan said:

And, you cannot just remove from in between and excpect everything else to show up.. you will have to rename the string values have sequential file names - file1, file2 etc.

# June 26, 2006 4:49 PM

theITGuyFromNY said:

My list shows items, but truncates the last parts for only some of the items (i.e. FTP list items) but NOT for non FTP items...a bug they'll never fix probably.

# August 17, 2007 3:43 PM

TheIconoclast said:

Just as I suspected! I love the official MSDN way of doing this - move all of your recent projects; open Visual Studio and click on each project, confirm that you want to remove each one from the list, then move the project back into the correct folder. On what planet does that make sense?! It's a software development environment! It's used by coders! We're not scared of regedit! Ugh. Well, anyway, thanks!

# December 5, 2007 12:37 PM