How to pin Visual Studio Solutions in Windows 7 Taskbar

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Mikeon picture Mikeon · Sep 10, 2009 · Viewed 7.7k times · Source

As in the title. Is it possible? When I rightclick on Visual Studio in a Taskbar I have a "Recent" category there i have but 1 .cs file that I can pin.

Now the question is: what to do to pin a .sln solution there?

Answer

Steve Psaltis picture Steve Psaltis · Sep 10, 2009

If you pin the VSLauncher.exe to the taskbar (drag it in) you will get recent projects and solutions on the right click menu.

You can find this exe in your program files / common files directory. Mine is in

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\MSENV\VSLauncher.exe

You can also do this by dragging a solution into the task bar (which does the same as the above). If you do this rightclicking it will show recent projects and solutions.

Hope this helps.

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