[FEATURE] Add option to show/hide csproj files in recent items list

[MagicAndre1981]

Installed product versions

• Visual Studio: 2019 16.8.2
• This extension: 1.0.1

Description

add an option to exclude csproj files from showing under recent items

Steps to recreate / Current behavior

1. open sln
2. add an existing csproj to the sln
3. close sln
4. the csproj now show up on recent

Expected behavior

recent items should not show csproj because I always open the sln for the project. For people who like the old way an option should be added to control which files get added to recent items.

[yannduran]

Hmm, I haven't actually noticed that happening. It's certainly not behavior that I've introduced, and I certainly wouldn't do that without a setting to revert to the previous behavior. I hate when Microsoft does that, so I wouldn't do that to my users!

In v1.0, I introduced a setting called Show Extensions to show or hide project/solution extensions, but I haven't even released any changes since then. The default setting is false (which hides the extensions).

A couple of questions:

1. Is the icon a green C# icon or a solution icon (rectangle with a purple VS icon in the bottom left corner)?

2. If it's not a C# icon, is it at all possible that you've opened a project file from outside of Start Page+? Maybe using Microsoft's Start Window, or by clicking on a project file directly?

3. Do all solutions show up as projects? You can toggle the Show Extensions setting to see if that makes it any easier to tell.

4. What do you see if you open the Start Window? I'm wondering if Microsoft may have made an internal change in a recent update that is affecting the list.

If none of that helps, let me know and I'll have a closer look at what's going on.

[MagicAndre1981]

I see the green csproj icons and I only want to have sln shown. I noticed that Start Window also shows csprojs, but this only happens if I add csprojs to a sln.

I think this is the default behavior of Visual Studio, it adds added csproj to the recent items list (check it with oldest VS I have (VS2012)).

[yannduran]

"I think this is the default behavior of Visual Studio, it adds added csproj to the recent items list"

Yes, I agree. It's not something that Start Page+ controls, it just uses Visual Studio's recent items list.

My advice would be to just delete the csproj entries that you don't want to see. If you see them pop up again after deleting them, it'd be interesting to know what exact actions makes them appear again.

But I doubt that I'll be able to do much about them reappearing, unless I added a filter to only show solutions (feel free to add that as a feature request, but no promises OK?). But clicking on a project opens the solution anyway, so is it really a huge problem?

If you're happy to do so, I'll leave it to close this issue. Any further discussion should be in the feature request (if you decide to open one).

[MagicAndre1981]

But I doubt that I'll be able to do much about them reappearing, unless I added a filter to only show solutions (feel free to add that as a feature request, but no promises OK?).

this is my feature request, try to filter them and only show sln files, no csproj.

[zippy72]

I'd love this, personally. I've actually posted a similar issue before on the Visual Studio issue tracker to ask for the recent items menu to allow this.

[yannduran]

Implemented in v0.21