Customizing the VS 2005 IDE
Question: I have been playing with the VS 2005 beta 2 and been enjoying it. It’s pretty obvious that it has some really great features. One of the things that I noticed was the changes in the start page. I had heard that it could be customized based on an RSS feed. Although, I can’t seem to find how this can be done. Do you happen to know?
Answer: The Start page within Visual Studio 2005 is actually controlled as part of the System options and you are right – it is RSS aware. Within the start page the following highlighted is based on an RSS feed and be changed.
To customize the start page follow these steps.
- Select Tools – Options – Startup options
- Instead of pointing at the standard feed. You can change it to a valid RSS as shown below.
- Once this done and the refresh interval occurs the page changes to the following
