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Is there a library that helps publish portlets to all the different portals? eg. Google Gadgets, Vista Sidebar, JSR 168, Facebook

These days there are so many different sites and environments where you can setup a portal and pull data from all over the place. Each of course expects the data in its own format. Do you know of any libraries that make it easy to publish to all these formats so that users can pull your data no matter which they choose to use? Of course...

How do you get a Rails project to start with index.html.erb instead of index.html?

My index.html page for my project needs some Ruby code so I need to change it to a .erb extension. How do I configure Rails to identify the index.html.erb file as the starting page of the project instead of the index.html file? ...

How do I make Visual Studio Start Page display my checked out files?

We use Visual Source Safe. Is there a way to have the all-files-checked-out-to-me report display on the Start Page in Visual Studio? So that when I opened VS, I'd see a report of everything I have checked out from VSS, categorized by project. ...

Customizing (not changing!) the VS 2008 start menu

Is it possible to customize the VS2008 start menu (remove the RSS feeds, expand recent programs, etc.)? ...

How to customize the Visual Studio 2010 RC StartPage recent projects

I'd like to play around with customizing the visual studio 2010 rc start page recent items. For what I have in mind I'd need to customize the datasource / databinding but I can't find where the information is coming from. <ScrollViewer Grid.Row="1" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Style="{DynamicResource StartPage.ScrollViewerStyle}"...

How to Open a Solution from a Custom VS2010 Start Page

I'm writing a custom WPF Start Page for VS2010. I have it displaying a list of common solutions used by me in a View. Now, I want to open the Solution in VS when selected. Any ideas? I'm looking at the DTE stuff, but having very little success. Before I dig too deeply, is DTE the right way forward, or is there another way? ...

Change number of Recent Projects displayed on VS2010 Start Page

Ok, I had VS2010 Start Page set up to display 20+ projects in the Recent Projects section, but while I was messing around with theming and importing/exporting settings I seem to have reset it back to its default of 10, and I can't locate where that setting is. Does anyone know where the setting for number of recent projects on the start...