Do you live inside Visual Studio all day?  Ever wished you could keep track of all those RSS feeds in a side pane so you wouldn't need to exit to read the lastest cool news on Blogs.MSDN.com?  Well, your wait is over…and it's Open Source!  Get it here.

This open source plugin ships as part of SharpTools 2.0 and is a full-featured RSS / Blog aggregator which integrates into the familiar dockable panes of the Visual Studio.NET IDE. You're gonna love it when you start blogging from within the development environment! Features include:

• Support for folders or individual feeds

• Drag-and-drop support for feeds and folders

• Preview a new feed as you add it

• Easy control of all feed properties

• Automatic and on-demand refresh of feeds

• Automatic feed search based on a site URL

• Keyword searching for published feedsusing Synic8

• Keyword search within all subscribed feeds

• Import of feed subscriptions from an OPML file