¿Es posible proporcionar contenido personalizado para la página de inicio de VS2012?

I finally got a custom start page working in VS2012 - my issue was I could not install the Start Page Project Template in 2012 as the extension only installs on 2010 (which I don't have access to) and my My Documents folder is mapped to a network drive, so putting the raw XAML file in My Documents/Visual Studio 2012/Startpages didn't work as Visual Studio refused to use this "untrustworthy file".

1. Download the Start Page Template from aquí.
2. Rename the file to .zip and extract it.
3. Copy the "\Solution\CSharp\Extensibility\StartPage.zip" file to your project template folder (by default "My Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#").
4. Create a new project using this template.

5. Siga las instrucciones aquí to upgrade from 2010 to 2012 start page.

   • Update the project properties target framework to 4.5.
   • Update the project references in the Control project by removing the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.10.0 reference and adding the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.11.0 and Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Immutable.11.0 references.
   • Update the namespaces references in the xaml file by replacing the existing ones with the two below.

   xmlns:vs="clr-namespace:Microsoft.VisualStudio.PlatformUI;assembly=Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.11.0"
   xmlns:vsfxim="clr-namespace:Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell;assembly=Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Immutable.11.0"
   

   • Replace the references to vsfx:VsBrushes claves para vs:EnvironmentColors keys, e.g. vsfx:VsBrushes.StartPageBackgroundKey a vs:EnvironmentColors.StartPageTabBackgroundBrushKey

6. In the VSIX project, make the following changes to the source.extension.vsixmanifest file (values depending on if 2010 support is desired, it is not for me):

   • Add an author, the default empty tag is not allowed: <Author>Ken</Author>
   • Change/add the visual studio support version to 11.0: <VisualStudio Version="11.0">
   • Change the supported runtime edition to include 4.5: <SupportedFrameworkRuntimeEdition MinVersion="4.5" MaxVersion="4.5" />

7. The VSIX solution should now build and spit out a VSIX file in the project bin folder. Install this and you can now choose your Start Page from the drop down list in the visual studio options.

I haven't actually developed my custom start page beyond this, but hopefully it is a helpful to people wanting to get started developing them with VS2012

EDIT: A project which includes a basic 2012 start page, custom control and can be deployed via VSIX: plantilla

Custom Start Pages, via google:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa991992.aspx