The Projects List on my Start Page is not being populated with the Projects I open. It's empty.
Does anyone know what could be the problem? I can see the entries being recorded in the Registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectMRUList
But VS isn't reading them in for some reason.
I'm running Visual Studio 2005 Professional.
Thanks.
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Does anyone have any idea why my Projects List on Start Page is not being populated.
I'm logged in as an Administrative User.
Thanks.
Gordon,
Nothing off the top of my head suggests itself as a proximal cause. But it sounds like a bug, and if you file this at http://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=210, the team that owns that functionality will get it and follow up. (The VB team doesn't have any insite into or ownership over that code, alas.) VS has goals around how quickly we respond to bugs filed there which are fairly aggresive, so you'd likely get pretty quick feedback.
--Matt--*
Hi Gordon,
I'd like to figure out what's going on here. Can you answer some questions to help us diagnose the problem?
Thanks! I hope we can get to the bottom of this.
-Michael
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screen shot (should have a few projects)
screen shot (after creating, saving, debugging, closing and reopening)
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Projects are in My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects
Settings are in My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Settings
I have full read/write access to those files.
Is there anywhere else I can look to help you out?
I also have this problem -- nothing showing up in the recent project list.
Based on the earlier suggestion, I tried a devenv /ResetSettings which did not handle this issue.
As a note, I do not even have a File-->Recent Projects option on the menu.
I opened two projects in VS.NET 2005, saved them, closed and opened VS to no effect.
Here is a link to a screenshot:
As another note, I looked at the registry key that reportedly has the recent project list and that key is empty (I didn't modify it). This is despite opening and closing 2 projects since the devenv /ResetSettings, and closing and reopening VS.NET 2005.
Any advice?
JK
I'm not sure if this will help any of you, but I figured I would post this here in case it helps someone.
It seems that Visual Studio inappropriately uses the settings for Windows Explorer which sets weather recent document history is shown. If you turn off the recent documents history for Windows Explorer, you effectively turn it off for Visual Studio as well.
Personally, I think it is a mistake for Microsoft to be doing this, however they have indicated that they will not be doing anything about this issue.
Check the following registry key and make sure the setting is 0. If you are being affected by this particular problem, that may get your recent projects list back:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoRecentDocsHistory"=dword:00000000
Thanks N8WEI,
That is exactly what I was going to suggest.
That's actually a system-wide group policy setting and it's mandatory for software to honor it in order to be Windows certified. Office and other Microsoft apps will do the same.
If anybody's still seeing the problem after checking that registry setting, please reply!
Thanks,
Michael
User Configuration/Administrative Templates/Start Manu and Taskbar
Do not keep history of recently opened documents -> disable or no config.
This policy had been set long ago and I pretty much forgot about it. So, here is a follow-up question:
Where can I find a document from microsoft (or anyone else) that maps registry keys to policy settings? I just poked around the internet and my policy and finally found the above setting modifies the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] And, 77 to N8WEI for your help, and thanks to Michael for his followup.
"NoRecentDocsHistory"=dword:00000000
I am having problems with the Recent Projects after I installed Team Architects. The recent projects window only displays the first three projects I opened and will not update to the most recent. Any thoughts...
Hey rufdog30,
Do recent projects properly show up correctly in the File -> Recent Projects list? Also, there's a known issue regarding projects that are opened from Source Control not showing up on the Recent Projects list. Could this be your issue?
Thanks,
Michael
