Project MRU Cleaner AddIn - New for Visual Studio 2005
posted on Monday, December 12, 2005 by bobby @ 2:34 am

Update 4/15/2007 03:13 pm

New version 1.0.0.5. Click here to go there now.


Update 1/23/2007 03:13 pm

New version 1.0.0.4. Click here to go there now.


Update 5/22/2006 9:42:39 AM

New version 1.0.0.3. Link at bottom


Updated 3/16/2006 09:35:53 AM

Major bug fix - MRU form would sometimes not show.
Minor bug fix when clearing out selected items.


I finally got so sick of not being able to clear out Project listings from the MRU (Most Recently Used) list from Visual Studio - I wrote an AddIn to do it for you now.



From the File Menu > Clear Recent Projects

Check the projects you'd like to clear from the MRU list and click the 'Clear' button. The cleared projects will not show in the list on the Start Page next time you launch Visual Studio. I attempted to refresh the Start Page, but it looks as if Visual Studio caches the MRU list on launch, so a restart of Visual Studio is required.

Click here to download Project MRU Cleaner

You must be using v2.0.50727 of the .NET Framework
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posted on Monday, December 12, 2005  by RYoung @ 8:21 PM

Cool, I needed that.
posted on Wednesday, December 28, 2005  by Dave @ 12:18 AM

Awesome, thanks for this. I've always wondered why it wasn't an option native to VS.
posted on Wednesday, December 28, 2005  by bobby @ 12:19 AM

You and me both, man.
posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2006  by -r @ 1:48 AM

Thank you very much! This is a very useful add in and it's strange this simple feature isn't built into such a complex tool like Visual Studio. I guess the junior programmer was out that day.

-r
posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006  by PavDaGreek @ 3:10 AM

Hi,

Installed this but the dialog never comes up so I can select the projects to delete. Any ideas?

For now I'm just clearing out the registry setting.

Later,

Pavlos
posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006  by bobby @ 3:15 AM

Yeah, that has happened to me a few times. Latest version fixes this.
posted on Wednesday, April 12, 2006  by MDG @ 7:31 AM

Thank you! This thing installed like a breeze, and it works!
posted on Sunday, April 16, 2006  by bobby @ 3:37 PM

The newest version of this will fix the "no dialog" issue.

Cheers.
posted on Wednesday, April 26, 2006  by Anonymous @ 7:02 PM

app rocks, and thankfully you get a good enough google rank on 'visual studio 2005 start page recent projects' to get found!


http://www.osix.net
posted on Tuesday, May 16, 2006  by bobby @ 3:31 AM

A new version of the Project MRU Cleaner Add-In is available here guys.
posted on Tuesday, January 23, 2007  by bobby @ 3:27 PM

New Version - link at top.
posted on Monday, February 26, 2007  by vtGoding @ 1:56 PM

I just downloaded and installed this and it works great in Visual Studio and BIDS. Is there any chance of getting or incorporating an Express Edition version too?

Thanks
posted on Thursday, March 08, 2007  by Bjarne Pedersen @ 2:22 PM

This is perfect, just what i needed!!
Now i just need to find a way to get .net v2.0 to stop talking danish and start talking English!!!
posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007  by Gary @ 1:07 PM

Thanks so much... you made my day!
posted on Thursday, March 29, 2007  by Cynthia @ 7:21 AM

Thank You this was fantastic! Just what I needed.
posted on Thursday, May 03, 2007  by Anonymous @ 5:37 AM

This is AWESOME, just what I have needed for MONTHS now!!! GREAT JOB, and thank you!!!!
posted on Wednesday, June 06, 2007  by Kolfr @ 12:58 PM

Great tool..... only PROBLEM.... I removed a project I'd really like to have back on the Recent Projects list. When I open the project again it does not add it back to the Recent Projects?!?!? Ideas????
posted on Wednesday, June 06, 2007  by Kolfr @ 1:26 PM

I answered my own question and since I thought maybe someone else had this issue I thought I'd pass along the answer. Instead of opening an existing project, CREATE a project and use the path to an existing project. The next dialog says there is already a project at that location. Select "Open the existing Web site". That will add it back to the Recent Projects list.....
posted on Monday, July 02, 2007  by Anonymous @ 3:18 PM

We are not worthy...we are not worthy...
posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007  by Anonymous @ 2:22 PM

Installed and it worked pretty well on VS 2005 professional. Although, it did hang once, but completed the cleanup. That is, when it restarted, it left the yellowcup and the old VS hanging. I manually killed the processes and everything was fine.

One other note: I gave this to my collegue running VS C# express. It didn't work there. (add-in never showed up).
posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007  by bobby @ 3:42 PM

That is because add-ins are not supported for Express versions. Microsoft has locked down all Express versions prohibiting any type of extensibility - such as add-ins, packages, etc.
posted on Friday, March 14, 2008  by Ciupaz @ 7:47 AM

Hi all,
is there a version for Visual Studio 2008 (Standard Edition) too?

Thanks.

Luigi
posted on Friday, March 14, 2008  by bobby @ 4:09 PM

Look around.
posted on Saturday, July 12, 2008  by CyanideX @ 9:02 AM

When I ran the setup, the version stated in the setup window is 1.0.0.7.
When I executed the Add-In within VS 2005, and clicked on the About link, the version number I got is 1.0.0.6.
Which one is real?


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