Edit or clear the recent projects and files in Visual Studio 2019

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I've recently experienced an weird issue with Visual Studio 2019. The start dialog where you select the projects to open, froze for few seconds every time I opened Visual Studio.

I was able to find a workaround, by peeking under the hood of how Visual Studio 2019 keeps the recent project list stored.

So here we go:

VS 2019 keeps an XML with settings in the following location:

%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\16.0_50e1ff9d

Note 16.0_50e1ff9d is the current Visual Studio version.

Within the XML file, the following node contains a JSON with an array of items, where each item is a description of a recent project you opened:
collection name="CodeContainers.Offline"> <value name="value">JSON with recent list of projects</value>


Here's an example of an item structure in the JSON:




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