Visual Studio / Express

Remove Projects in Visual Studio recent project list

bullpit — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:30:36 GMT

As such, you cannot remove the projects that are listed in the Visual Studio recent projects list on the Start page. One option is the find the projects which you want to remove in the location specified by the shortcuts, then either delete them or rename them and come back to VS and click the project name, you will get a message box asking you whether to remove the entry from the list.

Another option is to edit the registry entry (Warning! All registry edits should be done at your own risk).

I found a nice blog post explaing all of this, I am just pasting what I may need in future here:

Visual Studio Recent Projects

Visual Studio .Net keeps it's list of projects in the registry. Depending on which version depends on which location the list is stored.

· Visual Studio 2002 - 7.0

· Visual Studio 2003 - 7.1

· Visual Studio 2005 - 8.0

· Visual Studio 2008 - 9.0

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\7.0\ProjectMRUList]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\7.1\ProjectMRUList]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectMRUList]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\ProjectMRUList]

Open / Create Website menu item missing from Visual Studio 2008 Start Page

bullpit — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:21:35 GMT

I recently installed a third party control and it had an option to add the control to my Visual Studio toolbox. When it installed the control to my toolbox, I noticed that the "Open / Create Website" option on the Start Page was missing. I tried everything from repairing the install to uninstalling and installing VS 2008 all over again. Nothing worked, but then a saw a comment on resetting the VS settings.

For some, it may not be an option but I had only a few custom settings which I could change again.

This is what I did and it worked:

1. Start VS IDE.
2. Tools -> Import and Export Settings
3. Select "Reset all settings", click Next
4. If you want to save the settings, go ahead, I did not save them. Then click Next
5. Select "Web Development Settings" and click Finish.

You should now get the Website option on your start page.

More shortcuts for Visual Studio

bullpit — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:25:47 GMT

Aashish Gupta has posted a nice list of shorcuts in Visual Studio.

Here's the link:

http://smallworkarounds.blogspot.com/2008/12/visual-studio-2008-tips-tricks-for.html

Auto indent code in Visual Studio or Express editions

bullpit — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:17:15 GMT

I learned a nice trick today to auto indent code on aspx or code pages. Simply select the piece of code to be indented, press Ctrl+K and then press Ctrl+F and all the html or code will be nicely indented.