Start View Option

Use this dialog to specify what items are shown on the start view.

Visible items

Specifies the start view items that are visible. Possible values are:

Item	Description
Open and create controls	If checked, the start view contains buttons to open and create projects.
Recent projects	If checked, the start view contains the Recent Projects panel that shows you the project files that you have recently opened.
Packages	If checked, the start view contains the Packages panel that shows team-related packages. This is visible only if you have attached to one or more teams.
News	If checked, the start view contains the News panel that shows product news.
Samples	If checked, the start view contains the Samples panel that let you quickly open and browse Soluling samples.

By default, all the above items are checked.

Specifies if what kind of sample groups are shown on the samples panel. Possible values are:

Item	Description
Platform samples	If checked, the platform sample groups are shown on the samples panel. Platform samples are grouped according to platforms: Android, Delphi, iOS, Windows Forms, etc.
Feature samples	If checked, the feature sample groups are shown on the samples panel. Features samples are grouped according to platforms: Message, Plurals, Images, Language change, etc.

Specifies the platform sample groups that are shown on the samples panel.

Specifies the feature sample groups that are shown on the samples panel.

Item	Description
Simple samples	Shows simple samples that are meant to be the first samples to be studied when learning internationalization and localization.
Driving samples	Shows driving samples that calculate driving distance.
Message samples	Shows samples that demonstrate how to localization dynamic messages.
Plural samples	As above but messages contain pluralized data such as "1 file" vs. "2 files".
Image samples	Shows samples that demonstrate how to localize images.
Font samples	Shows samples that demonstrate how to localize fonts.
Data resource samples	Shows samples that demonstrate how to localize data resources such as XML and JSON resources.
Bi-directional samples	Shows samples that demonstrate how to localize into bi-directional languages such as Arabic and Hebrew.
Input method (IME) samples	Shows samples that demonstrate how to customize input method editors on Asian languages.
Language change samples	Shows samples that demonstrate how to perform runtime language switch.