How do you REMOVE or DELETE Items from Recent Projects list in VS2005 RC?

How do you REMOVE or DELETE Items from Recent Projects list in VS2005 RC?

• csaunders

  One way I discovered are to remove the project directory from the  [yourPath]\Visual Studio 2005 \ Projects \
  Then when you try to open the project in the recent project list, visual studio can't find it and ask you if visual studio can remove it from the recent list
  
  ps. I use VS 2005 Beta2
  
  /R
  
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• brizznady

  Hi All,
  
  We are sorry to note the inconvenience arising due to VS not having an easy way to clear the recent projects list.
  
  To address your concerns, I wanted to let you all know that we have already identified this problem and its going to be fixed in the next release. The suggested solution is to have a "clear recent projects history" button on the start page.
  Please feel free to share any better ideas.
  
  Meanwhile , as someone suggested , you can either edit the registry or manually delete the particular project folder and then while VS fails to open that project , you can choose to not see that project in the recent projects list.
  
  Thanks,
  Rupesh
  
  

• Keith Organ

  The clear recent projects (and/or files) history is definitely needed. Consider the security aspects. I work on proprietary projects and anything that makes it more difficult for prying eyes would be useful. I will continue to use the registry method. However, as noted, it is not neither recommended nor elegant.
  

• MatthieuGD

  I access projects that have been installed outside the standard VS Projects path (e.g. nunit sources, Microsoft patterns and practices hands on labs, etc.). Typically I created work copies from these projects in my VS Projects folder. As a result I have two identical project names listed coming from different sources.
  
  Microsoft: Please, add an option that let me remove the unused items from the list using a right mouse click or even simpler, the delete key.
  
  Peter

  
  

• Scottcha

  If Microsoft is looking for a deletion or project removal model  to use,
  they should just look at the the way it is done in Marcomedia Dreamweaver MX.
  You can remove, BUT don't actually delete projects. Dreamweaver calls it "sites".
  You can remove "sites" and they don't show in the list anyone, BUT still available should you change your mind. You can also choose to completely delete the site.
  I think, this is the best of both worlds.
  yousaid

  
  

• el dio

  Off topic, but related... I moved the location of my Project Store to "C:\Visual Studio 2005\..." , and I'd like my recent projects list to populate with project that are NOT in the default location (C:\Docs&Settings\Username\MyDocs\etc\etc". I can open the projects just fine, but when I save and exit, and re-open VS 2005, my recent projects is empty

  Any ideas on how to fix this

  
  

• Scott Goldenberg

  >> The suggested solution is to have a "clear recent projects history" button on the start page.

  uhm, maybe I am blind, but in the released version I have still not found an easy way to cleanup your "recent projects" list. I also believe that the way that the list is presented makes people want to be able to mange it. E.g. in office (and many other apps) , the MRU list only appears if you _open_ the file menu. In that fashion, the list is not so "intrusive". In VS, the list is on your _start_ page, and somehow this urges you to have an MRU list with valid items only.

  
  

  
  

• Rafed

  Yes, please do not only a clear list as now is in windows but a selective removal of projects!

  
  

• Andy321432

  Great info. We have been testing many existing applications for compartibility and the list builds up rather quickly every day. Will be a great feature to have a way to remove them without the regedit.
  Thanks,
  yousaid
  

• Hamed_1983

  "Really, you shouldn't need to"
  
  
  If I had a nickel for every time I've wanted to clear that list...
  
  Sometimes I'm working with temporary disconnected projects which have the same names as items in source control in other directories (but I can't see directories easily on the start page); sometimes I'm messing with test or scratch projects that I don't want to have show up all the time.  It ought to be easy to remove items from the list or the clear the whole list without having to do it manually in the registry.
  
  VS2005 is a fantastic product, and I'm enjoying playing with it...but I'm astonished that this basic bit of functionality is _still_ not present.  Put it in the next patch!  (Please )
  

• DanThMan

  I have many times resorted to the registry to clear the project mru list.  When almost every other application I can think of has a "favorites" listing ability, why is it that the projects don't qualify for this simple organizational feature   Being able to qualify projects under a folder such as Test, Release, Tutorial, CompanyName, etc would allow a lot of flexibility, and usually comes with delete / rename features as well.
  

• Jimmy7777

  And an even better solution, or addition to the clear all butter, would be to be able to right-click on an entry and have a menu item to delete it.
  
  --Eric
  
  
  
  

• Fiaz Sheikh

  My suggestion is to allow individual removal of projects from the MRU list. Why As I work on my main two or three projects, I may start a new "scratch" project or two to test some code. I don't want to inject this test code into my main project. But I don't want to lose the main projects off the MRU list either. So, let me clean up the list selectively please.
  

• Lakshmi1341

  Really, you shouldn't need to, but there is a way.
  
  If you continue to use Visual Studio with different projects, only the most recent few projects are shown.  So, those that you no longer use will "age off" the list, and be replaced by those that you do use.
  
  If you don't want to wait for that to happen, however, you can clear them out of the registry.  The MRU list is stored under:
  
  HKCU\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\FileMRUList  <--- File list
  
  HKCU\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectMRUList  <--- Project list
  
  Know that manually editing the registry is discouraged, and you do so at your own risk.
  
  Thanks,
  Robert McIntyre
  Visual Studio Product Team
  
  
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