Wednesday, October 14, 2009
As a developer, you create many projects and open many more third party projects files over the course of your development career. In doing so however, your “Recent Projects” sidebar in the startpage in VS 2008 becomes cluttered with some things that end up being temporary anyways. Here’s how to clean it up: Open regedit. Navigate through the registry to this spot: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\ProjectMRUList and you’ll see a list that looks similar to this: File1 Reg_Expand_Sx Path File2 Reg_Expand_Sx Path File3 Reg_Expand_Sx Path File4 Reg_Expand_Sx Path You need to delete the values you don’t want, and then rename all the remaining
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
I've recently made the switch to VS 2008 and noticed that the active file is not highlighted in the docked solution explorer. Being that I work with multiple projects and countless hundreds of class files -- this became somewhat cumbersome; it's necessary for me refer to the file hierarchy and the current project 30% of the time. After some digging around, I discovered that VS 2008 does not enable this feature by default (this was the case for VS 2005); In order to fix this, you need to go into the Tools -> Options -> Projects and Solutions and check
