Change VS 2010 Start Page Recent Projects Count + Custom Start Page With Site

In the mood of improving my work couple of days ago I wrote about Wifi Network Backup Manager Utility a utility that allows you to Save and Load Wifi Network Profiles, using Native Wifi API through P/Invoke interop.

Today I decide that I’ll change Visual Studio 2010 Start Page to show things I really wants starting from more Recent Projects, today VS 2010 only shows 10 recent projects, because I have a lot more than 10 recent projects I want to continually open I’ve increased the Max Count of recent projects.

Download Custom Start Page - Download Registry Key

How?

From Tools –> Option –> General – This didn’t worked for me so….. Registry allows works

Download Registry Key (Set the recent count to 30)

The problem is there is not enough place to show all 30 recent projects, so I had to create new Custom Start Page for Visual Studio 2010.

And if I’ve already done that I decide to add additional thing like – Show a specific site when I open Visual Studio.

So I have used RssFeed Context to allow me change the site from the start page, so just enter the site you want and hit the refresh button to apply changes so next time you will automatically see your predefined page.

<TextBlock x:Uid="UriTxt" Text="Start Uri:" Margin="4,7,0,0" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Width="50" Height="25" VerticalAlignment="Top" />
<TextBox x:Name="Uri_TextField_Source" Text="{Binding Rss.RssFeed, Mode=OneWay}" Margin="3,4,2,0" Height="26" VerticalAlignment="Top" Grid.Column="1" />
<vs:ImageButton Margin="0,4,6,0" Click="ImageButtonClick"
                        Focusable="True"
                        Command="{x:Static sp:RssCommands.SetUrl}" CommandParameter="{Binding Text, ElementName=Uri_TextField_Source}"
                        ImageNormal="pack://application:,,,/Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.StartPage;component/Images/StartPage/RSSButton.png"
                        ImageHover="pack://application:,,,/Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.StartPage;component/Images/StartPage/RSSButtonMouseOver.png"
                        ImagePressed="pack://application:,,,/Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.StartPage;component/Images/StartPage/RSSButtonMouseDown.png" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Width="34" Height="25" VerticalAlignment="Top" Grid.Column="2">
</vs:ImageButton>
<Border Grid.Row="1" Grid.ColumnSpan="3" BorderThickness="1" BorderBrush="Gray" CornerRadius="2" Margin="4,0,6,0">
    <WebBrowser Name="webBrowser" />
</Border>

Download,install and define the start page to – Custom Start Page – Site (Tools –> Options)

And Walla! Enjoy and I hope this helps you save time!