How to bypass the News Channel (?)

[blueyedtam]

Hi;

We've recently had problems withour data communications link, and I was wondering how to bypass the news channel so we can continue working offline.

Right now, it's making us wait around, sometimes a long time, and we would like to read the news later if needed.

I couldn't find a way to do this in Visual Studio - any ideas?

Thanks; Tammy

[Steven_L_Intel1]

In VS, select Tools > Options > Startup. You can TRY un-checking the box "Download content every", but I found VS2005 seemed to ignore that. VS08, however, does disable the news feed if you do this.

An alternative is to set the URL field to http://127.0.0.1/ which will error-out quickly.