Visual Studio Hacks

Edit the Most Recent File and Project Lists #13

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Modify Number of Items

By default, both of these lists display only four (or eight in Visual Studio

2005) of the most recent projects or files. By navigating to Tools

➝ Options ➝

General, you can set the number of items shown in these lists under the

option called “Display

n items in most recently used lists.” This option can be

seen in Figure 2-29.

You can set the number of items to any number between 1 and 24. When

you click OK, you will immediately see the new files and projects in Visual

Studio.

Editing Most Recent Lists

There is no place in Visual Studio to edit either of these lists, but thankfully

Microsoft has released a power toy called VSTweak to do so.

Figure 2-28. Visual Studio .NET 2003 start page

Figure 2-29. Number of items to display in most recently used lists

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A power toy is a small utility released after the full release of

an application. It is usually written by the some of the same

people who worked on the original application and often

includes features or functionality that they could not get

done in time to build into the original application. You can

find power toys for most Microsoft applications including,

but