Visual Studio 2005 – Recent Projects

I do not know about you, but I like to have full control over everything and it drives me crazy that Visual Studio 2005 does not offer an easy way to delete items from the Recent Projects list on the start page from within the IDE. I did a little looking around and see that the list of projects is stored in the registry.

Visual Studio 2005
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectMRUList

Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\VCSExpress\8.0\ProjectMRUList

Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition
Software\Microsoft\VWDExpress\8.0\ProjectMRUList

I created a very simple .NET 2.0 windows application that allows you to delete specific projects or clear an entire list of projects for a specific version of Visual Studio 2005. This is really nice because the key names must be sequential named/numbered (i.e. File1, File2, File2). Who wants to go into regedit and manually rename "File3" through "File10" after deleting "File2"? This application makes managing the recent project lists a quick and painless task. You can download the Recent Projects application here. Please feel free to download and use this application. This application requires Windows and the .NET Framework 2.0.

I am downloading the bits for Orcas Beta 1 and will see if they have addressed this issue or if I need to add support to my Recent Projects application.