Hi,

Thanks. The second link was a 'not- found' but MS's first suggested URL was http://www.microsoft.com/rss/Default.aspx which I assume is what you were aiming for. Problem now is that I see the odd link that looks interesting on the Start Page and tend to sidle off and have a read rather than getting on with work......

Best,
Viv

>I use this link:
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>http://www.microsoft.com/feeds/msdn/en-us/rss.xml
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>You might also find something else to use if you go here:
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>http://www.microsoft.com/feeds/
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>~~Bonnie
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>>>>Hi,
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>>>>For my sins I still have the 'Start Page' loaded by default in the VS IDE. Every morning I get the 'Updating the news channel....' message on startup. Seems to me it's been wasting its time for the last 6 months - there doesn't appear to have been any new content since last March!
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>>>Have a look at http://www.emoreau.com/Entries/Blogs/2008/03/Start-Page-Content-pane.aspx
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>>H,
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>>Thanks. I looked at that (and the link provided by Gregory) and have switched for the time being. But, TBH, I didn't see much there of interest to me (seems like mainly VS IDE stuff - I'm more interested in language-based articles....)
>>Bdest,
>>Viv