The Latest News Tab

As in Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2010 can also show a list of news based on RSS feeds so that you can stay up-to-date with your favorite news channels. Now the list appears in the Latest News tab, as shown in Figure 2.3.

Figure 2.3 The Latest News tab shows updated news from the specified RSS channel.

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By default, the news channel is an RSS feed pointing to the MSDN developer portal, but you can replace it with one of your favorites. To accomplish this, you have the following alternatives:

• Open the Latest News tab and replace the default link in the RSS feed field with a valid XML feed link (this ...

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