Episode 13 of Visual Studio Toolbox (Customizing the Visual Studio Start Page) is now live
In this episode, I review 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, I show that you can download customized Start pages from the Visual Studio Gallery. Then I build a custom Start page that displays a number of developer-related RSS feeds.
The code from this episode is attached, both the stand-alone RSS reader and the customized Start page.