welcome screen

[wlopatin]

Is there a way the get VS to open to the "get started" tab instead of the "upgrade" tab. I know they want to sell an upgrade but I just want to edit my projects.

[Ken Berry]

In Preferences > General, have you set the 'Default Startup Page' to Edit rather than the default Welcome Book?

[wlopatin]

That worked so when I open VS it opens to the edit screen. However what I wanted was to open to the welcome screen but at "Get Started" so I see the list of projects I am working on and can pick the one I want to edit. That makes more sense to be as a starting "home" page rather than seeing the "upgrade" nag.

[Ken Berry]

I don't have VS 2020 installed. I have VS 2021, 2022 and 2023. With VS2023, when I have the Welcome screen open and look at Get Started (or Files as it is now called in VS 2023), and then change Preferences to open on the Welcome screen instead of Edit, and close VS, if I then reopen it, it opens at Get Started. This is repeatable.

However, when I do the same with both VS 2021 and 2022, it always opens at the Upgrade page rather than Get Started. Again repeatable. So it looks as though the change was made for the latest version . And I'm afraid I have no idea how what you want might be achieved in earlier versions as I always set Edit as the opening page. Hopefully someone else might have suggestions... But you might want to try this in the trial version of VS 2023 to see if you can set it the same way...

[wlopatin]

Thanks for the research. I usually only upgrade every 2 years and not every year but I'm glad to see this changed. Something to look forward to.

[RobertOZ]

You can get the same result if you open File on the Edit Screen and select Open Project, this will list all your saved .vsp projects

[wlopatin]

Thanks