Will VS 2010 display recent used project and solution in the context menu of the start menu?
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06-07-2019 - |
Question
Start menu in Windows 7 has a feature: a programs, pinned to the top, can show a context menu with recently used files:
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Will Visual Studio 2010 be able to display also recently used Projects and Solutions?
Solution
It is possible to pin solution files to the recently used file list.
- First make sure you already have Visual Studio pinned to the Start Menu.
- Next, drag the Solution file on to the Start Menu so that it is pinned in the main list.
- Now select the the Recently Used Files button for Visual Studio so that the list is showing.
- Drag the solution file from the main list into the recently used file list.
- You can now remove the solution file from the main list.
OTHER TIPS
Beta 1 doesn't seem to support this yet. Its easily possible by using the new Taskbar APIs and specifically the custom categories feature. I think their main problem might be that the solution files are associated with an app called VSLauncher.exe (this small app determines what version of VS to load when you launch a SLN file).
If you want to "pin" your fav solution files to any version of VS, one option this is (I currently used this with VS 2008 and 2010 Beta 1:
- Open Explorer and browse to any SLN file you want to pin.
- Drag it and pin on the taskbar (it will pin to VSLauncher.exe; this is okay)
- Now just repeat the steps for other SLN files.
When you click on a SLN file from the above pinned program's jumplist, another instance of VS2010/VS2008 will launch. It won't show your recent projects or solutions, but atleast it allows you to pin your fav/recent solutions manually. I think you can use this for CSProj or other project files as well.