Recent project on Visual Studio does not appear on right-click (Windows)

Question

I reinstalled windows and visual studio recently, and I no longer have recent projects on a right click

I can't even pinned a project

Even for Excel :

I think is a windows problem, but i try to find a solution on the web and i can't found.

Did you know how to resolve it ?

Thank you

Longobard

Answer 1

Answer from the Microsoft forums :

Open the Settings App (gear icon on your Start Menu)
Go to Personalization - Start
Is this setting turned on - Show recently opened items in Jump Lists on Start and Taskbar?

Longobard

I got the same answer, but it doesn't work for me. I turned it off and turned it back on, and pinned files on other applications stayed, but it lost my MRU files on all other applications. – Sheeran

The other answer worked for me https://mcmap.net/q/1395123/-recent-project-on-visual-studio-does-not-appear-on-right-click-windows – Salpiglossis

Got the same issue, turns out this is the fix. I had to restart the explorer process from task manager and it seems that its ok now. – Isotonic

Answer 2

Testing this issue in 2023 on Windows 11 with Visual Studio Community 2022 I have discovered that it matters HOW you open projects or solutions. The only way I have found that consistently causes the project or solution to appear in the "recents" list is:

1. Open Visual Studio without a project or solution (the "Continue without code" link on the splash screen)
2. Select File -> Open -> Project/Solution
3. Browse to your ".sln" or project file, select and open it

After this, the project or solution should finally show in the right-click context menu "recents" section. From there you can right click the recents item and select to pin it, which I recommend. Then you don't have to worry about if you opened it in the correct way recently enough.

Firebrat

That workaround works ok for projects that I work on often. But is there any solution for projects that are worked on infrequently over longer time scales (say, a week), but might be worked on often on a single day? IMO that's really what the 'Recent' list is for, and this bug prevents that from being used. For example if I have a project that rarely needs updating, or I've created a temporary testbed project, I'm not going to pin it, since I don't want that cluttering up my menu. But I might be switching back to it hundreds of times during the first half of my day. – Kolkhoz

This was exactly what I was looking for, in terms of long-lived projects, I pin them to the list. That way they always show up when I right-click. – Kazoo

Answer 3

only thing worked for me VS 2022 Win11:

from VS develop community

Be sure to have jump lists enabled on Windows 10: Go to the new messy ugly control panel, Personalization > Start > [X] Show recently opened items in Jump Lists on Start or the taskbar and in File Explorer Quick Access.

German Settings name "zuletzt geöffnete Element in "Start", Sprunglisten und Datei-Explorer anzeigen"

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