Remove ‘recent project templatest’, and small fixed section with remaining commands like cloning repository, and others. This will speed up finding required project type. Seconfd tab – New projects – contains tree based pane with hierarchy: Languages -> Platforms -> Project types and list of project templates, as it was in older VSs. Recent opening dates should be only small attributes to viewed projects / folders. If some projects are insidde repo folder, then this should be viewed as projects inside such folder. Using projects contain currently used projects based on spending time, not historical openings. Make two tabs – Using projects and New projects. Great to see that it moved back to page, from windows. If you have any other feedback, please feel free to share in Developer Community! If you’re interested in seeing Developer News in the Welcome page, please upvote this item. We’ve created an item in Developer Community to serve as a hub for discussing the early work around this experience. Let us know if there are any tiles or customizations you’d like added, or whether there’s anything we can improve about the already existing experience. Give the new Welcome page a try and let us know how it works for you. Visual Studio Welcome Let us know what you think! Be sure to let us know what else would be useful to you for customizing your Welcome experience. This is a first step toward bringing additional customization to the page.

If you’d like to free up some space on the Welcome tab, you can close the What’s New tile. You’ll also find a new tile linking to the “What’s New” page, which shows information on some of the new features shipped in Visual Studio.

Quick links for creating a new project, opening an existing project, opening a folder, and cloning a repository.

The Welcome page presents all the options you’re used to accessing from the Start Window as a tabbed document window in the IDE itself. You’ll encounter an in-IDE Welcome tab instead of the modal Start Window, allowing you to jump right into the shell. Once you update to Visual Studio 17.6 Preview 2, you’ll get a sneak peek at some of our first attempts at improving the experience on launch of Visual Studio, informed by the previous start page versions, while leveraging the performance and UX improvements that were made for the start window.

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