RSS Screensaver Starter Kit A starter kit is a template or model program you can use with the Express editions to learn new tools and programming techniques and to easily build a working program. The RSS Screensaver Starter Kit, available for either Visual Basic Express or Visual C# Express, helps you create a Windows screen saver that displays live Internet RSS feeds on your computer monitor. If you’ve never built a screensaver before, or if you have never written code that uses RSS, then you’ll find this kit a great way to start programming. The project comes ready to compile and run for a fully functional screensaver, but it is easy to customize to include images and RSS feeds of your choice. The thorough documentation will help you learn about the .NET framework and how to use the Visual Studio environment. By studying and modifying the commented source code you can also learn advanced GDI+ techniques such as using transparency and writing formatted text to the screen. The starter kit also includes a set of classes that can parse RSS feeds, which you can use as a starting place for writing your own RSS applications.