Is it possible to have the Visual Studio 2010 Start Page show a list of Recent Websites in addition to (or in place of) the list of Recent Projects? Most of my solutions are Websites, and it’s annoying that I have to go thru the File > ... menu for those when there’s a Recent Projects list on the start page going unused.
Previous versions of VS showed Websites in the Recent… list, I don’t know why they’d take that functionality out of the new one.
I tried simply replacing the DataContext="{Binding RecentProjects}" line with DataContext="{Binding RecentWebsites}", but not surprisingly, that didn’t work.
I just wanted to chime in with the solution I found.
While I still don’t know if it’s possible to show the recent Websites on the Start Page, you can at least get the same effect. Heres’ how:
After you create a Website, Visual Studio creates a .SLN file in the “C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects” directory. So if you create a website named MyWeb in your WWWROOT folder (or anywhere else), Visual Studio will create “C:\Users\shughes.DOM\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\MyWeb\MyWeb.sln” for you. You can then open that .SLN file, and it will open the site no different than if you had opened it with the FILE > OPEN WEB SITE menu option. The solution will be added to the normal Recent Projects list and you can pin them and open them from the Start Page.
Hope that helps someone.. it’s a little thing, but takes a few clicks out of my life every day, and that’s enough for me. 🙂