Add discoverable way to switch between Microsoft's start page news feeds by Andrew McDonald

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Type:	Suggestion
ID:	177128
Opened:	8/6/2006 8:20:33 AM
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When you first start VS2005 you're asked what type of developer you most want to be. This determines which news feed is selected initially on the start page. However there's no discoverable way to switch between these afterwards.

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Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition

Windows XP Professional

English (UK)

\VS IDE

\Designers

We're told the start page can use any valid RSS feed which is all very well, but within the IDE there should be some list of Microsoft's Visual Studio-related feeds so we can easily switch between them at a later date.

The page at http://msdn.microsoft.com/aboutmsdn/rss/ yields some working URLS but these are of a different format to the defaults, and this isn't discoverable within the IDE. I'd suggest a drop-down list on the start page itself.

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Posted by Microsoft on 9/8/2006 at 10:54 AM

Hi Andrew - thanks for the great suggestion. Unfortunately, I don't think we'll be able to do this for Orcas. However, I have blogged a list of the RSS feeds that are included as part of VS 2005 Pro at http://blogs.msdn.com/aaronbrethorst/archive/2006/09/08/746613.aspx.

Thanks again,
Aaron Brethorst
Visual Studio Tools Platform