The "Recent Projects" section on the startup page in VS2008 feels pretty useless to me.
I'm used to checking out multiple repositories to work on different features. Our repository structure is pretty deep. The File->"Recent Projects" menu does not show enough of the path for me to figure out which project it is going to open. The closest I can get is hovering over projects in the "Recent Projects" section on the startup page, because then I can read the whole path in the statusbar. Still I tend to opening projects frequently to test different ideas, but in general I only work on a few projects.
I think it would be great to have a "Favourite projects" section instead of a "Recent Projects" with entries I could name myself.
Does anyone know of such an add-in for VS2008?
MZ-Tools has a feature that's pretty close to what you describe.
The details of the Favorite Solutions feature can be found under the Features to enhance your Visual Studio experience heading.
This feature is intended to replace the Recent Projects or Start Page features of Visual Studio, which have some flaws: a recent project is not always a favorite project...
Although this tool is NOT free, it does offer the feature you are looking for. You can try it out for 30 days.