The New Visual Studio 2010 Code Editor

As you may have already heard Visual Studio 2010 will include a *new* code editor completely *rewritten* in fully managed code and based on *WPF*. Yaay!. Very, very promising stuff.

I just fired up the bits I received at the PDC08 and went Help->About Box, and looks like they haven't put much cycles into it yet -which is expected for a CTP release- and it's funny how are the calling it right now... "Text" (very humble!) with a somehow confusing description of "WPF Editor" and an ugly stock icon stolen from someplace.

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I'll be playing with the new editor and extending Visual Studio 2010 for the next couple of days so stay tuned if you are into extensibility or just want to know about the latest news of Visual Studio 2010!

Published Tuesday, October 28, 2008 11:01 PM by vga
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Comments

# re: The New Visual Studio 2010 Code Editor

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 2:53 PM by peter

Is that editor for WPF or for regular code (c#, aspx, etc)?

# re: The New Visual Studio 2010 Code Editor

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:42 PM by Victor Garcia Aprea

It's a text editor, for regular code or XAML or any other text-based stuff, and not a designer for WPF, that's why I said the name they've chosen for the dialog is confusing.

# re: The New Visual Studio 2010 Code Editor

Tuesday, December 16, 2008 3:26 AM by Lie Wang

I actually found it is really weird:

- I cannot select the whole line by clicking the left side of an line.

- when debugging, I cannot watch the values of a variable when I put my mouse cursor on (not sure whether it has a setting somewhere).

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