Startup Options

If you just don’t like the Start Page or prefer to launch directly into the project you’ll be spending the next few months of your life working on, you can customize what happens when the IDE boots. From the Options dialog box (Tools, Options or the Settings link on the Start Page), choose the Environment node and then the Startup leaf. Figure 2.7 shows some of the options available to you at startup.

Figure 2.7 Startup options.

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From here, you can configure where to get your start page news(Start Page news channel). You set this to a valid RSS feed URL. You can also use the At Startup option to tell the environment to load the ...

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