For those that already try out the latest version of Visual Studio - Visual Studio 2010, you might notice the changes that the team did to the Start Page/IDE.

Visual Studio 2010 Start Page/IDE is now created and designed with WPF.


In another word, you as a developer can actually customize the content if you are familiar with WPF or XAML code.

Below will be a simple guide to show you how you can customize your own Start Page in the upcoming Visual Studio 2010.

1. Locate your My Document\Visual Studio 2010\StartPages Folder.

2. You will find 2 file in the folder which is "StartPage.csproj" and "StartPage.xaml" .

3. You can start to modify/replace the StartPage.xaml with your own version of Startpage.xaml file (please do backup first).

If you can't find the 2 files, you can download the StartPage at the following link:
Download : blog.scnetstudio.comStartPages.zip (6.31 kb)

4. Once you done with your edit, load your Visual Studio 2010.

5. Go to Tools->Options->Start up->Customize Start Page. From the drop down list, you can tell Visual Studio 2010 to locate your customize start page. 

6. Click OK for the new start page and you will see the result.

My version of edited Start Page.
 


If you have a previous version of Visual Studio 2010 other than Visual Studio 2010 RC, the file that i provided will no work. 

Happy edit your start page. :D

For more info : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee663382(VS.100).aspx

Update on how you can do the simple editing : http://blog.scnetstudio.com/post/2010/03/10/How-to-Customize-Visual-Studio-2010-Start-Page-Part-2.aspx