Michael C. Kennedy's Weblog - Visual Studio Tricks Series: #3 Managing the Recent Projects List

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Visual Studio Tricks Series: #3 Managing the Recent Projects List

Welcome to my third Visual Studio tricks post. This time it's more of a utility, than a tip. I want to talk about managing the recently projects list. If you're like me, then you work with many different projects (especially after I teach a class) and your recent project list becomes polluted with projects you don't care about.

In this post, "Recent Projects in Visual Studio 2005", .net DEvHammer discusses how to access the registry to alter that list.

Well, I didn't feel like going to the registry everytime I wanted to clean that list. So I whipped up a simple UI to manage that list (basically manage that registry list).

You're welcome to download this program if it looks useful to you. I decided to publish it via ClickOnce so it will always be up-to-date. If you're using FireFox, you'll need to FFClickOnce add-on to make this work.

Install Visual Studio Recent Files Utility (approx 200 KB)

I hope you enjoy it!

This project is now hosted on CodePlex and is Open Source.

Tools | Visual Studio | Open Source

posted on Wednesday, September 12, 2007 8:27:40 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Thursday, September 13, 2007 8:22:09 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Hi Mike,
Just wondering if we would have the code available for your tool. BTW great job!!

Thanks,
Ankur

Ankur Gurha

Thursday, September 13, 2007 9:04:42 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Hi Ankur,

Thanks I'm glad you enjoy the program. Sure I don't mind posting the source code. I include a link at the end of the post.

Michael C. Kennedy

Friday, February 01, 2008 4:29:23 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Nifty. How about having the possibility to remove particular entries, instead of all the list? There are certain projects that freak me out just by seeing them in the Recent Project List :)

Conrad

Wednesday, February 13, 2008 9:33:37 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Conrad,

Good suggestion, that feature is now in there. Just run it again and it'll auto-update.

Regards,
Michael

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