Startup Options

If you just don’t like the Start Page, want to create your own, 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), choose the Environment node and then the Startup leaf. Figure 2.13 shows some of the options available to you at startup.

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FIGURE 2.13 Startup/Start Page options.

Tip

You may like to briefly scan the Start Page but want it to disappear after you load a project. This option is available to you as a check box at the bottom left (scroll all the way down) of the Start Page.

You can also use the At Startup option to tell the environment to load the last solution, show the new or open project dialog boxes, open a custom Start Page, or do nothing (show an empty environment). You can also configure how often Start Page content is automatically refreshed from the server. (This is hidden under the drop-down in Figure 2.13.) Finally, you have the option here to use a custom Start Page.

Note

To see how you can create and use a custom Start Page for Visual Studio, search “Customizing the Start Page for Visual Studio” on msdn.microsoft.com.

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