A Flow launcher plugin to let you quickly open your recent Visual Studio projects, solutions and files, as well as remove those pesky entries that exist no more!
Type
pm install Visual Studio Launcher
in Flow Launcher.
Important
Requires at least Flow Launcher version 1.16.
Search all your recent items from all your Visual Studio installations.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
[ {your search} |
Search all recent items (if empty shows all). |
[ p: {your search} |
Search only recent projects (if empty shows all projects). |
[ f: {your search} |
Search only recent files (if empty shows all files). |
Note
Theoretically works with any number of Visual Studio installations, provided they are Visual Studio 2017 version 15.2 or later, as it requires vswhere.
Press ⇧ Shift + ⇥ Tab or right-click on a search result (a recent item) to open the context menu shown below.
This allows for:
- Opening the item in a specific installation of Visual Studio.
- Removing the item from Visual Studio's recent items list.
- Opening the item in your default file manager.
Note
The recent items list is shared between all your Visual Studio installations (although it can get out of sync), therefore, if you remove an item, it removes it from all Visual Studio installations recent item list.
- The default Visual Studio installation to open a search result with (when you press ⏎ Enter or left-click). Clicking shows a dropdown of all the Visual Studio installations found on your system.
- Refresh the list of Visual Studio installations.
- Clear invalid items from the recent items list i.e. if the path to said item does not exist remove it.
- Removes all items from the recent items list.
- Manage the backup (by default the backup is updated once a day, provided Flow Launcher has been launched that day).
- Restore recent items to the current backup
- Backup recent items right now
- Stop automatically updating the backup
- Sometimes the icons for each Visual Studio installation in the context menu are not shown, restarting Flow Launcher should fix the issue.
- This blog post on where the recent items in Visual Studio are actually stored.
- The Visual Studio Code plugin for Flow Launcher.
- Microsoft for the Visual Studio icons.
- Icons8 for the other icons.