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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


Posted Tue, May 2 2006 8:28 AM by Eric Wise

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Jeff Parker wrote re: Visual Studio 2005 - Recent Projects
on Tue, May 2 2006 10:47 AM
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.
Confessions of a Webgypsy wrote Remove Recent Projects from VS 2005
on Tue, May 2 2006 12:39 PM
I hate creating a test app or a coding sandbox and then having that show up in my recent projects list...
Dave Balzer wrote Remove Recent Projects from VS 2005
on Tue, May 2 2006 12:39 PM
I hate creating a test app or a coding sandbox and then having that show up in my recent projects list...
Mark Zukiwsky wrote re: Visual Studio 2005 - Recent Projects
on Tue, May 2 2006 3:26 PM
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.
Kalyani Sundaresan wrote re: Visual Studio 2005 - Recent Projects
on Mon, Jun 26 2006 4:49 PM
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.
theITGuyFromNY wrote re: Visual Studio 2005 - Recent Projects
on Fri, Aug 17 2007 3:43 PM

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.

TheIconoclast wrote re: Visual Studio 2005 - Recent Projects
on Wed, Dec 5 2007 12:37 PM

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!

Inquiring Mind wrote re: Visual Studio 2005 - Recent Projects
on Fri, Oct 3 2008 12:43 PM

What I don't understand is this ... if I open an exisiting project from Source Control it never gets added to my recent list.  Why is that?????

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