Today I am VERY pleased to announce the availability of the Tip of the Day Start Page (Release Candidate). An extension to have the Visual Studio Tips and Tricks delivered to your Start Page for the RC release of Visual Studio.  Here is what it looks like on your Start Page:

So how do you get this amazing new extension?  Easy!  Just follow these simple instructions:

1. First, check out Sara Ford's most excellent post on how to install extensions:
   http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/pages/how-to-install-visual-studio-extensions.aspx
   
   
2. We will take the first way and install from inside Visual Studio so go to Tools -> Extension Manager.
   
   
3. In the Extension Manager, click on the Online Gallery section:
    
   
4. Now, in the search area, type in "visual studio tip":
   
   
5. Locate the "Visual Studio Tip of the Day Start Page" Extension and click the Download button:
   
   
6. You will get the wonderful install dialog, just click the Install button at this point:
   
   
7. You will get a message at the bottom of the Extension Manager that you need to restart Visual Studio, click on the Restart Now Button:
   WARNING:  In case it didn't sink in, this will RESTART Visual Studio so you might want to save your work if you haven't already.
      
   
8. Visual Studio will close and automatically restart.
   
9. Now go to Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Startup and choose "[Installed Extension] Visual Studio Tip of the Day Start Page":
   
   
10. Click the OK button.
    
11. Go to your Start Page and click on your new Tip of the Day Tab, this is what it should look like:
    
    
12. That's it!  Congratulations you now have the Tip of the Day delivered fresh and hot to your IDE every day!

At this point, I want to show you some cool features of the extension, for example notice there are previous and next arrow navigation arrows:
  

There is also a dropdown list in the middle so you can see the last 15 tips posted:

Notice the "View complete tip listing online" link?  That will take you to the RSS feed for ALL the tips I have posted since the series began.  Very nice :)

Something like this just doesn't happen out of thin air.  It takes a lot of folks to make this come to fruition.  With that said I would like to thank the following people:

Adrian Collier - For writing the extension and making the tips easily accessible to folks.

Sean Laberee - For driving this vision forward and introducing me to some really great folks on his team.

Brittany Behrens - For hooking me up with some awesome VS2010 tips!

Last, but not least,  Sara Ford - for starting the tips long ago and passing the passion for Visual Studio on to me.  You rock Sara!!

On behalf of Microsoft, we all hope you folks enjoy this extension and it helps drive your love for Visual Studio  :)

Here comes some legal stuff they made me put in.

Note: This extension is provided 'as-Is', with no warranties or support provided. Please log any issues in the discussions tab at the following location:

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ae14bcb4-f11e-4d4d-b122-389bf72316e7?lc=1033

Troubleshooting

If you encounter issues with loading Visual Studio with this Start Page, you can start Visual Studio in safe mode by typing the following at the Visual Studio Command prompt.

Devenv /SafeMode

This prevents the custom Start Page from loading. You can then return to the Tools->Options dialog box and reset Visual Studio to use the default Start Page.