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Visual Studio Toolbox: Customizing the Visual Studio Start Page

Posted: Oct 12, 2011 at 1:55 PM
By: Robert Green
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In this episode, Robert reviews the Visual Studio Start page, showing how to configure it so that it automatically appears (or doesn't) as well as how to customize the RSS feed that appears on the Latest News tab. Since the Start page is XAML and can be customized, Robert builds a custom Start page that displays a number of developer-related RSS feeds and downloads two customized Start pages from the Visual Studio Gallery.

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lixin TR

Oct 13, 2011 at 9:39 PM

useful to me, will try it out.
DonRiko

Nov 10, 2011 at 6:15 PM

Yeah this was a good tip. I guess I never thought about modifying the start page.
Will definitely give this a try!!! Update: it's kinda nice having twit.tv in my studio...

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