Request: Recent Project List Not Maintained

[tilemachos]

Currently the recent projects list (on Start Page) is not maintained properly. Many times I delete a project but it appears in the list no matter what. It would be nice if it had the visual studio behavior, so the user is prompted to remove a project from the list when it cannot be found.

Thanks,
Tilemachos

[«Midnight»]

Of course there is a trade off involved. Visual Studio needs to touch each of the recent projects at startup. This increases startup time noticeably - you can reduce VS startup time by pruning the list and removing deleted files.

The EA approach is to let us delete files from the Open Project dialog. Not perfect either.

So, what do people prefer?

[thomaskilian]

Maybe something like browser bookmarks. Would give you the chance to group projects.

[«Midnight»]

Sounds intriguing Thomas. What exactly do you mean? Can you give us a 'for instance?'

[thomaskilian]

Well. Currently you just have this simple list. It brings you to wherever the model is. Just like a browser bookmark. But these can be organized in sub-directories. I have quite some EA models and it would be nice to open them from an EA internal "browser" - instead of a dumb list. Funny thing is that I now realize that the EA startpage is never really used by me. It just takes away a tab. Why not simply go back to the "Open recent" and make it a bit like e.g. Firefox' bookmarks?

[«Midnight»]

I see where you're going. Not a bad idea at all.

[tilemachos]

Nice ideas guys. I am sure Sparx will do something about it.

In regards to VS start up time, I don't think it is a serious problem. My impression is that VS maintains a list of recent projects under local user's settings. If something is removed then VS removes it from the list.

It is simple approach and it could work nicely for EA too. Of course, I would prefer much better an implementation of Thomas idea