What is Visual Studio 2010 going to look like?

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I have heard several podcasters (most recently the guys on DotNetRocks) say that the look and feel of Visual Studio 2010 has been completely redesigned and Visual Studio rewritten in WPF.

I have been watching some demos on channel9 of the Visual Studio 2010 CTP and the only thing that looks different to me is the opening screen.

I read the notice on MSDN, but it doesn't say anything about the look/design of Visual Studio.

Has Microsoft reversed direction on this or are there going to be major changes made to UI of the final product?

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It's way too soon to make guesses about what it will look like: I don't even think that they know what it will look like.

However, from what I've heard, they are in fact rewriting portions to be WPF/C#, but they are not throwing everything out and starting from scratch. Instead, they will be rewriting portions as it makes sense. For example, I saw that they have some new UML tools that definitely look to be done in WPF.

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I'm guessing 3D with a space theme. You'll be able to "fly through" your code, "orbiting" classes, "shooting down" bugs and "launching" your code.

Uh, the beta has been available for over a month. I have been playing with Visual Studio 2010 on and off. It is very similar to 2008 in overall design.

You can download it here and see for yourself where they are taking the product:

Download Page at Microsoft.com

There are a metic ton of videos on Channel9 about VS2010, TFS 2010 and then the PDC 2008 sessions online as well. They are also starting a new series called 10-4 dedicated just to VS2010 - a walk through of sorts.

Let's pray that they don't dink with anything, visually. My #1 guess is that they'll try and wrap the new office ribbon bar around our necks. ;|

I've heard that its going to have a historical debugger.

Also- this should prob be a wiki

From WPF Wonderland:

Visual Studio 2010 gets WPF facelift

WPF has been out for a couple years. That’s long enough that new releases of Microsoft products are sprouting WPF interfaces.

Last year at PDC Microsoft announced that the code editor in Visual Studio would be re-written in WPF. Microsoft didn’t stop at the code editor though. Today Jason Zander, GM for Visual Studio, revealed the new WPF based IDE.

Highlights from the PDC Keynote #1 on Day 2 (see: PDC website)

  • Multi-monitor support for the IDE via WPF.
  • Building classes from test classes.
  • Toggle TFS bugs over a code segment in Debug mode.
  • Partial config files for debug, release.
  • WYSIWYG Silverlight Designer.
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