Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Clearing MS VS.NET 2005 Recent Project History

I guess everyone using MS VS.NET 2005 would have noticed the "Start
Page" which contains the history of recent projects opened. The number
for projects opened to be remembered can be configured at
Tools>Options>Environment>General>Recent Files

If a history project's solution or project file was moved/deleted, then
the VS.NET itself would recognize it and would ask the user to if it
needs to remove it from the history list. But what if, I need to remove
a project in the history list even if it is not moved/deleted?

I just found a registry solution.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectMRUList

The above registry path refers to the location where VS.NET stores the
recently opened projects. You can clear this location to make VS.NET
remember afresh.