Project list on Start page
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The VS.Net start page has a list of recent projects. In the process of debugging something, I created some copies of a project in several different directories. Now my start page has multiple entries with the same name. (The links are correct, i.e. they point to the appropriate copy in it's directory. The IDE did just what it was supposed to do.) But these multiple entries with the same name really bug me. How can I edit this list to remove these entries but leave the rest? Yeah, I know this is pretty minor, but it's one of those little things that just gets under your skin... :mad: TIA :) marshall If you continue to do the same things you always did,
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The VS.Net start page has a list of recent projects. In the process of debugging something, I created some copies of a project in several different directories. Now my start page has multiple entries with the same name. (The links are correct, i.e. they point to the appropriate copy in it's directory. The IDE did just what it was supposed to do.) But these multiple entries with the same name really bug me. How can I edit this list to remove these entries but leave the rest? Yeah, I know this is pretty minor, but it's one of those little things that just gets under your skin... :mad: TIA :) marshall If you continue to do the same things you always did,
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The recent project list is stored under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\7.0\ProjectMRUList. Delete any unwanted projects that you have. Ofcourse, close devenv, edit the registry and restart. HTH, Jignesh
Jignesh I. Patel wrote: Delete any unwanted projects that you have. Yeah, I saw that too, but I can't delete or modify the entries. It's probably a permissions thing that I could get around in regedit32 but I'm not sure how VS will react if I simply delete a key. Do I have to rename the remaining keys to maintain the sequence, i.e. File1, File2 ... File'n' and then create a new entry for the last file? I'm just not sure I want to jack around with the registry for VS while I'm under the gun on production code unless I have some confidence that I won't put myself out of business. :~ marshall If you continue to do the same things you always did,
don't be surprised if you get the same results you always got. -
Jignesh I. Patel wrote: Delete any unwanted projects that you have. Yeah, I saw that too, but I can't delete or modify the entries. It's probably a permissions thing that I could get around in regedit32 but I'm not sure how VS will react if I simply delete a key. Do I have to rename the remaining keys to maintain the sequence, i.e. File1, File2 ... File'n' and then create a new entry for the last file? I'm just not sure I want to jack around with the registry for VS while I'm under the gun on production code unless I have some confidence that I won't put myself out of business. :~ marshall If you continue to do the same things you always did,
don't be surprised if you get the same results you always got.Marshall wrote: Yeah, I saw that too, but I can't delete or modify the entries. It's probably a permissions thing that I could get around in regedit32 but I'm not sure how VS will react if I simply delete a key. If you are feeling really brave and know some javascript you can look at the generateMRUTableItems function in vshome.js file. This function is called from within the vshome.xsl file. Both these files can be found in the \Common7\IDE\HTML\1033 folder. Ofcourse you could create your very own start page.. :) I would ofcourse have a backup of both files before editing them. You'll obviously have to shut down VS and restart it after editing those files. HTH Jignesh
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Marshall wrote: Yeah, I saw that too, but I can't delete or modify the entries. It's probably a permissions thing that I could get around in regedit32 but I'm not sure how VS will react if I simply delete a key. If you are feeling really brave and know some javascript you can look at the generateMRUTableItems function in vshome.js file. This function is called from within the vshome.xsl file. Both these files can be found in the \Common7\IDE\HTML\1033 folder. Ofcourse you could create your very own start page.. :) I would ofcourse have a backup of both files before editing them. You'll obviously have to shut down VS and restart it after editing those files. HTH Jignesh