Visual Studio Tip #2: Customize the Start Page

September 19th, 2006

When you first fire up Visual Studio 2005 it shows the Start Page. It shows headlines related to various Microsoft technologies. You can change it to use any RSS feed you like.

To change the settings, click Tools, then Options. Make sure the Show all settings checkbox is checked and then open Environment and click on Startup. Then place the Url to your RSS feed in the field marked Start Page news channel.

Here are a few ideas for the alternative RSS feeds:

  • Project related blogs from your favorite bloggers
  • To Do list RSS feed generated from your issue tracker
  • Build status feed from your continuous integration server (CruiseControl.NET has one already)
  • My blog feed :)

My copy of Visual Studio at home is set to the RSS feed at Digg.com.

To create your own custom RSS feed you may find some help from the latest from dnrTV. Carl covers RSS in .NET.

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