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The Clear Recent Project List extension

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The Clear Recent Project List extension

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- [Instructor] When you work with multiple projects in Visual Studio, you accumulate a list of recent items that you can see in the IDE. You can see those in a couple of places. One is the start page, here. You'll see on the bottom left is a list of solutions and projects I've opened. Today I opened one called WeeklyTips.sln, and then at an earlier stage I opened a csproj file called Name Generator Library and I can click on those to open those in Visual Studio. You probably do this every day. It's the same in the bottom of the file menu. There's a recent files list that shows the individual files I worked with recently and the recent projects and solutions. If you're following along, you'll need to use your own files and projects. I have not prepared a Github branch for this tip. This is a nice feature. It provides quick access to items you've worked on recently, but eventually you might find yourself with files you're not working on anymore, or it could be that you don't want to…

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