PowerToys Run: Visual Studio plugin

Simple PowerToys Run experimental plugin for search Visual Studio recents.

Important

• Support Visual Studio 2022 stable and preview (not tested with previous versions)
• The plugin may stop working in case of changes to Visual Studio since is built on top of the vswhere.exe and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\...\ApplicationPrivateSettings.xml
  • It gets installed instances of Visual Studio using vswhere.exe
  • Then gets recents from the CodeContainers.Offline section of the ApplicationPrivateSettings.xml file of the instance

Requirements

• Visual Studio 2022
• PowerToys minimum version 0.76.0

Installation

• Download the latest release by selecting the architecture that matches your machine: x64 (more common) or ARM64
• Close PowerToys
• Extract the archive to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\PowerToys\PowerToys Run\Plugins
• Open PowerToys

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