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svick
svick

Reputation: 244928

How can I start new project from the Visual studio start menu?

In my Windows 7 Start menu, when I open the Visual Studio sub-menu, it shows my “pinned” projects and also my recently opened projects:

Start menu with the Visual Studio menu opened

This is quite useful and can speed up opening the project a lot (because I can do something else while Visual Studio and the project are loading).

But I often happen to create new temporary projects (especially when answering SO questions). Is there some way to streamline this too? Ideally, I'd like to add a shortcut among the pinned projects that creates, say, a new C# console application. Can I somehow modify the menu to add such shortcut? Or is there something else that achieves similar effect?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 328

Answers (2)

surfen
surfen

Reputation: 4692

Another option is to create a start-menu/taskbar shortcut to:

devenv.exe /command np

After clicking it you would need to choose the type and name for your project

You could also create a script that copies your template project and opens the new copy in VS.

Upvotes: 1

BryanJ
BryanJ

Reputation: 8563

I use a common test solution "test.sln" that I reference when I need to open visual studio to try out some code. I just open the test solution and add another method. Then in my Main method, I just call the new method added.

If you are constantly adding new test projects and you don't need to keep them around, you can use temporary projects.

Upvotes: 0

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