Hi, vihio:
Here are some relatively simple manipulations that will probably
accomplish what you want.
Note that on the Visual Studio Start Page, there is a tab control
running vertically along side where the Recent Projects are listed.
At the bottom is a tab called My Profile that let's you replace the
list of Recent Projects with a few other appearances on VS.Net start
up, such as throwing you directly into the most recent solution or
into an empty development environment.
This and more options can be obtained from the Tools > Options...
pull-down menu. In particular under the Options settings for General,
you can not only retrieve the default Start Page (if you removed it
above), you can also change the length of Display X items in most
recently used lists. By "touching" those projects whose links you
wish to retain and reducing (e.g. from 4 to 3) the number of items in
the Recent Projects list, you can effect the disappearance of the one
you don't want to see.
Another approach is simply to rename the folder containing the
offending project. The Start Page then skips right over that item in
the list of Recent Projects and is able to display even less recently
opened projects. Restoring the previous folder names causes the items
to reappear. For example, the oldest project in my list was a
"solution" called CoinFlip. I renamed the subdirectory of my Visual
Studios Projects folder that contains that project, and after
restarting Visual Studio, an even older project appear instead in that
last place on my Start Page.
Note that you must stop and restart Visual Studio for almost all of
these changes to take effect. Please advise me to prepare a
clarification if I have failed to address your question completely.
regards, mathtalk-ga |
Request for Answer Clarification by
vihio-ga
on
12 Nov 2002 17:07 PST
Hi mathtalk,
Thanks for your answers... they're not exactly what I want but I do
think that they qualify as real answers. The issue is that one of the
recently opened projects is on a remote server that I don't want to
show in the list even though it was opened recently. I'm not sure
where the DATA used to populate the project list is stored. I suspect
it's in an XML file somewhere that I'd like to edit directly in order
to remove the reference to the project on that remote server. Let me
know if you happen to know how to do that too. But I do think you've
"earned" your answer fee regardless.
Take good care,
Vihio ;-)
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Clarification of Answer by
mathtalk-ga
on
12 Nov 2002 21:08 PST
Hi, vihio:
This may seem a little old-fashioned, but the list of recently used
VS.Net projects (or perhaps more properly, solutions) is stored in the
registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\7.0\ProjectMRUList
Under this key one finds values of File1, File2, File3, etc. up to
File10. I experimented with changing the value names (rather than the
data), and got the expected results. For example, I had a project
CoinFlip identified under File4 and another project MatInverse under
File5. I swapped the labels and fired up VS.Net with the (default)
list length of 4 recent projects. Now MatInverse shows up as fourth
on the list. I changed the Tools > Options... Display X items most
recently used to 5, stopped and restarted VS.Net, and now I can see
MatInverse in the fourth slot and CoinFlip in the fifth slot, together
with their out-of-sequence last-modified dates.
Use your judgement about whether it's worthwhile to edit the registry
for this.
regards, mathtalk-ga
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Clarification of Answer by
mathtalk-ga
on
13 Nov 2002 13:34 PST
Thanks, vihio, for taking time to rate my answer and for posting a
very interesting question. I'm glad you didn't settle for my $2
answer!
best wishes, mathtalk
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