How can I add my .sln file to my Jump List for Visual Studio (Windows 7)?

Question

This very well my be a SuperUser.com question, however it's directly related to my programming environment so I thought I would ask here to see if another developer has solved this issue.

I would like to add my most commonly opened solutions to my Jump List for Visual Studio 2008 in Windows 7. I've fiddled with the recommended methods of doing so I've found around the web, but I haven't had any luck. Any ideas?

Answer 1

You first need to edit your registry so that your solution file is associated with visual studio directly (i.e. not through the version selector)

Article on how to do this.

Once you do that then you can pin it to whatever version of VS you have.

Answer 2

I figured one way to do it (if you don't want to mess with the registry), but ultimately I went with the other answer.

I had to drag the solution file to the taskbar itself. The OS knows to add VSLauncher to the taskbar and pin it to it.

The problem I was having was I was trying to drag it onto the visual studio 2008 application icon I had pinned to the desktop.

Answer 3

There's an extension that adds jump list support to Visual Studio 2008.