It is Truly the Simple Pleasures In Life

Recovered from DotNetJunkies blog -- Originally Posted: Monday, April 24, 2006

The recent project list on the start page of the Visual Studio IDE seems like such a cool thing at first glance. However, very quickly it degrades into the "How many times do I have to be reminded that I called my test project 'Son of Foo'" list. We end up with junk in there that is just plain annoying. Recently our shop made a move to Subversion for source control, finally giving Visual Source Safe the merciful lethal injection that it so deserved. In the process I cleaned up and moved my local working copy of code to a new folder. So now I not only was reminded of every time I created a test project named "WebApplication1" in the past month, but I also was faced with duplicate entries of "My Solution" in the list, one real one just a mirage. Needless to say I clicked on the mirage enough times to be motivated to google on how to clean up the recent project list. In doing so I found this very light-weight, and useful, util here. Thanks to Josh Beach (whoever you are) and the guys at CodeProject for this useful little number. It truly made my day.

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