The New Visual Studio 2010 Code Editor

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

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.

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!

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

peter - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 6:53:30 PM

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.

Victor Garcia Aprea - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 11:42:58 PM

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