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But you have to navigate to it first. The Start Page has it right there in front of you.
I'm working on a app thatg has 5 solutions. I open 5 VS instances, then go to the start page of each, click the link, and I'm in business.
No navigating all over to find what .SLN(s) I need.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Pin 'em to the VS icon menu on the tool bar and it's even quicker and easier.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Kevin Marois wrote: But you have to navigate to it first. The Start Page has it right there in front of you.
Pin VS to the taskbar. Once a solution has been opened it's added to the context menu, simply right-click the icon and select the solution from the list.
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In my case, navigating to the project folder where the .sln resides is fine. All the non-VS stuff I need for the project will be in the same region.
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jackbrownii wrote: Am I the only one that just double clicks on the .sln I want to work with and never open a blank Visual Studio instance?
Never start new projects do you?
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Not very often, no. More of my work is done with stuff to run on CNCs. A few long running C# projects, but, few new one.s
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I have my projects pinned to the VS icon on the taskbar, so I never see it. Unless I click with the wrong mouse button of course ... 
Then it appears on the wrong sodding monitor and I don't see it ...
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Turned it off on day one.
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How do you turn it off? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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Tools -> Options
-> Environment -> Startup
-> On startup, open: "Empty environment"
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I open one instance of VS in the morning, and just switch out the solution I'm working on. I sometimes need 2 instances, but that is a once every 3 months kind of thing. Not having a list of recent projects inside VS to pick from will be a pain in my a$$. VS 2017 already makes it harder for me because I have to manually close the current solution before opening another. Prior versions I could just open a new solution and the old one auto-closed.
Bond
Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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What actually is the start page?
I use VS everyday and I can only guess what this is all about.
Is it the "open a project" window you see when opening VS?
If so, I don't get it.
That window never opens when you pin projects and it's actually quite handy to clone projects with.
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- Spend the afternoon retro-fitting nice, neat, sensible JavaScript into kindergarten style JavaScript that IE can understand.
- Repeat.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: nice, neat, sensible JavaScript
Where the heck did you get that?
I didn't think it existed in anything more complicated than "Hello Internet" ...
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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The Canadian Fentanyl crisis, and it's effect on the coder base
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Kinda makes you nostalgic for VB, doesn't it?
Will Rogers never met me.
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Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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No, it doesn't 
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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What a scary thought.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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That is not nostalgia you are feeling that is nausea.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Just a small difference, eh? 
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What are you peddling now?
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That's the problem. He's not. Pedalling, that is.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Chris Maunder wrote: retro-fitting nice, neat, sensible JavaScript into kindergarten style JavaScript that IE can understand
 To what end?
I've always been one of those guys for whom IE "just works" well enough to never really have committed to any of the alternatives, but given that even some MS sites no longer work with it nowadays, even I now have Chrome/Firefox installed, and would be okay if CP forced me to switch to something else.
There, I just gave you permission to break IE compatibility. I hope you weren't waiting for my blessings...otherwise...sorry about your afternoon.
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