Customizing the Places panel in Visual Studio 2008

Question

Has anyone succeeded in setting up the Places Bar for VS 2008? My settings from VS 2005 were not transferred in 2008 (obviously), and no matter what I do with the registry, I cannot make my custom places in the Open dialog box. I read and applied the relevant MS KB article, but to no avail.

This works well with VS 2005, so it might be a VS 2008 bug, but I might be wrong trying to use the same approach.

Answer 1

some observations:

VS2008 now uses the Common File Dialog. With Powertoys TweakUK, I was able to set all places to "none", and the VS2008 Open File dialog box would become empty.

, VS2008 : "Desktop", "standard_project_folder", "My Computer".

Sysinternals RegMon , [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\comdlg32\PlacesBar] ctrl + o... , , .

Answer 2

VS2005 VS2008 (sp1 ) -

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HKCU/Software/Microsoft/VisualStudio/9,0/Open //UserDefinedPlaces/Place0/Path = (

HKCU/Software/Microsoft/VisualStudio/9,0/Open //UserDefinedPlaces/Place1/Path = ( )

VS2008 :

HKCU/Software/Microsoft/VisualStudio/9,0/Open //UserDefinedPlaces/Place0/Path = "C:\Dev"

HKCU/Software/Microsoft/VisualStudio/9,0/Open //UserDefinedPlaces/Place1/Path = "C:\Staging"

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Answer 3

If you just want to change the location of “my projects”, you can set the path as described for VS in response to this post: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vssetup/thread/861733cd -e337-4fce-9570-1a1d43cd64ac /

I just did this for VS2005 and VS2008 and it works great.