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<h1align="center">Visual Studio for Flow Launcher</h1>
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A [Flow launcher](https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher) to let you quickly open your recent projects, solutions and files in Visual Studio.
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A [Flow launcher](https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/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!
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## Installation
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Type
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```
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pm install Visual Studio
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pm install Visual Studio Launcher
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```
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in Flow Launcher.
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> [!IMPORTANT]
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> Requires at least Flow Launcher version 1.16
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> Requires at least Flow Launcher version 1.16.
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## Features
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### Searching
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Search all your recent items from **all** your Visual Studio installations.
|`[ p: {your search}`| Search only recent projects (if empty shows all projects). |
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|`[ f: {your search}`| Search only recent files (if empty shows all files). |
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Search all recent items from all your Visual Studio installations.
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> [!NOTE]
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> Theoretically works with any number of Visual Studio installations, provided they are Visual Studio 2017 version 15.2 or later, as it requires [vswhere](https://github.com/microsoft/vswhere).
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### Context Menu
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Press <kbd>⇧ Shift</kbd> + <kbd>⇥ Tab</kbd> or right-click on a search result to open the context menu (seen above).
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Press <kbd>⇧ Shift</kbd> + <kbd>⇥ Tab</kbd> or right-click on a search result (a recent item) to open the context menu shown below.
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This allows for:
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- Opening the item in a specific installation of Visual Studio.
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- Removing the item from Visual Studio's recent items list.
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- Opening in your default file manager.
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- Opening the item in your default file manager.
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> [!NOTE]
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> 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 recent item lists.
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> 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.
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### Settings
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2. Refresh the list of Visual Studio installations.
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3. Clear invalid items from the recent items list i.e. if the path to said item does not exist remove it.
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4. Removes all items from the recent items list.
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5. Manage the backup (by default the backup is update one a day provided Flow Launcher has been launched).
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5. Manage the backup (by default the backup is updated once a day, provided Flow Launcher has been launched that day).
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1. Restore recent items to the current backup
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2. Backup now
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3. Stop automatically updating the backup
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## Know Bugs
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2. Backup recent items right now
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3. Stop automatically updating the backup
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Sometimes the icons for each Visual Studio installation in the [context menu](#context-menu) are not shown, restarting Flow Launcher should fix the issue.
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## Known Issues
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- Sometimes the icons for each Visual Studio installation in the [context menu](#context-menu) are not shown, restarting Flow Launcher should fix the issue.
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## Acknowledgements
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- This [blog post](https://www.thomasbogholm.net/2021/06/18/pruning-recent-projects-in-start-page-of-visual-studio-2019-open-recent/) on where the recent items in Visual Studio are actually stored.
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- The [Visual Studio Code plugin](https://github.com/taooceros/Flow.Plugin.VSCodeWorkspace) for Flow Launcher.
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-[Icons8](https://icons8.com/) for some icons.
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- Microsoft for the Visual Studio icons.
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-[Icons8](https://icons8.com/) for the other icons.
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