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We recently revised the organizational structure of some source code, and as a result projects now resided in new locations on disk.  I've a big fan of the MRU list, and make use of it often in visual studio (both via the File->Recent Project/Solution menu option and the quick links available on the VS start page).  The reorganization of my code base orphaned this links.  I was unable to locate a UI for managing this list within visual studio, but did locate the source of these lists in my window's registry.

 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\ProjectMRUList

 

Open RegEdit (or your favorite registry editor), migrate to the above locate and modify/delete the MRU list presented within.

 

It's the small things that speed along the work day, don't you think?

posted on Sunday, February 17, 2008 10:47 PM

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# re: QuickTip: Clean up Visual Studio's Recent Project List 2/18/2008 8:57 AM Laurent
Hi,

Just in case :) when a recent project or file in Visual Studio is orphaned, clicking on it brings a dialog asking you if you want to remove it from the list... Easier than tweaking the registry :)

HTH,
Laurent

# re: QuickTip: Clean up Visual Studio's Recent Project List 2/18/2008 9:43 AM Chris
Thanks for the reply. You're right of course about the vs dialog appearing for orphaned solutions, but I actually wanted to modify the location of each of my solutions so I wouldnt have to dig through my filesystem and try to rebuild them.

# re: QuickTip: Clean up Visual Studio's Recent Project List 2/18/2008 11:53 AM Eddie Velasquez
Try "MRU Manager" at CodeProject

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/applications/MRUManager.aspx

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