Visual Studio News Channel When Using Proxy

Question

Does anyone know how to force Visual Studio to use a proxy?

My VS install never shows any news on the front page as the company I work for uses a proxy

Any ideas??

This did not work - The XML addition was not correct and VS complained.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You will have to manually set the proxy for Visual Studio. I've had this problem in the past with the integrated MSDN help (see here). Try adding the following configuration into Visual Studio's config file (located inside the Visual Studio installation directory at Common7\IDE\devenv.exe.config):

<configuration>
    <system.net>
        <defaultProxy enabled="true" useDefaultCredentials="true">
            <proxy bypassonlocal="True"
                   proxyaddress="http://yourproxy:port"/&gt;
        </defaultProxy>
    </system.net>
</configuration>

Answer 2

Have you tried configuring the proxy settings in the Internet Properties? At least the Document Explorer uses the connection setting configured there

Open the Internet Properties from the windows control panel and select the tab Connections. There you click on the button LAN settings and setup your proxy.