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A New Look for Visual Studio 2010

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At the PDC and TechEd EMEA last year we described our new editor support built on the WPF technology in .NET Framework 4.0.  Today I’m happy to reveal the new UI for Visual Studio, also built on WPF:

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In this image you can see several areas of concentration:

  • Reduced clutter and visual complexity by removing excessive lines and gradients in the UX and modernized the interface by removing outdated 3D bevels
  • Placed focus on content areas by opening negative space between windows and drawing attention to the current focus with a dominant accent color and a distinctive background
  • Added an inviting new palette to make VS 2010 more distinctive

 

In the following image you can see floating documents which allows you to utilize multiple monitors while designing your project and writing code:

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This image shows new support in the editor for outlining:

  • Triangle glyphs in the margin are used to collapse or expand your code blocks
  • Collapsed sections of code are marked with an empty triangle (pointing straight) as well as a set of ellipses
  • Colors on the margin indicate edits that have been made

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The New Project dialog has also gotten an update to include online template viewing, a search box, and easier navigation.  Multi-targeting remains in this version but now with .NET Framework 4.0 included as an option:

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Visual Studio has a very broad and rich ecosystem of extensions written by our partners and folks like you.  In VS2010 we wanted to make it easier for you to find those extensions and install them.  We’ve enabled the new Extension Manager for this purpose:

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With the Extension Manager you will be able to browse for templates and tools online and install them easily into the Visual Studio environment.  The next public release of VS will have this new functionality and we’ll be hooking up the online capabilities through the Visual Studio Gallery as part of the final release.

These designs were developed and tested for user feedback by our User Experience team and implemented by the VS Platform team (excellent job!).

We hope you like the new look and feel of Visual Studio 2010.  You’ll be able to play with these bits when we release Beta 1 which we are working hard on right now (no formal announce date just yet, stay tuned).

Enjoy!

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  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Loving the look so far, can't wait for the next CTP/Beta/RC. :)

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Looks great! One thing I'd love to see is tha bility to stack tabs in the edit and designer panes. Currently (and it looks like 2010 as well), if the tabs sill the screen then they are added to a drop-down list and not easily accessible. I often have MANY tabs open at once and would like to be 1-click away from all of them.

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Looks incredible! I'm really looking forward to the multi-monitor support. Can you please provide the Beta's (and especially CTP's) in installable form rather than VPC's? Ship it as an unsupported, use at your own risk product with a twenty step install document, but please give use the option of shooting ourselves in the foot.

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
      You may have heard that VS 2010 will have an improved UI.  The last CTP showed some of the

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Nice features. I liked the ability to use multiple monitors; it'll make it so much easier to work on several files side by side.

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    I absolutely love the multi-monitor features.

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Looks great, but... how bout some higher resolution pics? And... more of them. Better yet, how 'bout some video of windows in action. Please tell me the tool windows slide out, pull away and dock smoothly now. :) Later, Drew

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Dang...I was hoping to see the ribbon in there somewhere.

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    February 24, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Very nice looking. I like that the window chrome in VS'10 will be a darker color. The traditional, mostly white chrome in previous versions makes the monitor brighter and harder to look at for extended periods of time. I like the idea of this a lot more; and it follows suite (a little bit) after the UI in the Expression tools. Since it's written in WPF, will be have the ability to re-skin it to what ever we'd like??

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Looks great.. I love the multiple monitors support.. Could you please provide us with more snapshot.. with larger size? these ones are pretty small.. Thanks..

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Is it possible to 'group tabs'.. sometimes I would be working on some many related files at once.. that It would be useful to group them instead of looking through them to find the one I want.. Also, Stacking tabs (instead of scrolling them to right and the left) is a great idea..

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Depuis la PDC (Professionnal Developer Conference) 08, Microsoft a annoncé que Visual Studio 2010 serait

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    First look at the Visual Studio 2010 UI

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    It looks like the first two screenshots are mockups, given that the devenv titlebar doesn't match what's shown in the Windows titlebar.

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Not a big fan of the triangle glyphs for code expansion... they don't indicate the range of code covered when expanded like it currently does.

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Buenas, si has hecho alguna prueba al estilo “Hola Raimundo” en las máquinas virtuales de Visual Studio

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Buenas, si has hecho alguna prueba al estilo “Hola Raimundo” en las máquinas virtuales de Visual Studio

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Buenas, si has hecho alguna prueba al estilo “Hola Raimundo” en las máquinas virtuales

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    when can we expect the next CTP/Beta?

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Why only make the extra code windows floating? For real multi monitor support, it would be so nice to have multiple, real windows, with tabs and maximize and minimize buttons, docking for anything panels, etc.

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Jason Zander , the General Manager for Visual Studio, has just announced some more details (with screenshots)

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    The VS10 UI is taking shape , it still looks very much like the UI in the PDC build but with some tweaks

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    I would pass on the little triangles and stick with the plus/minus icons we have now. Mimicking the look of the Vista windows explorer is not a great idea. I would hope that the focus would be on function, not fashion...

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Awesome! I'm afraid won't fall asleep today after reading this post! Will be waiting for betas impatiently.

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    For the expand/collapse code regions, I see you're no longer using a + or - for them, but instead the Vista-style triangles. Can you make them big enough to click (which would be slightly larger than they seem to be in your screen shots), please? Vista fails in this regard and is a usability problem, IMO.

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Well, I'm very disappointed that Office ribbons haven't been considered at all.

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    nice overall. Didn't like the triangles. The current +/- regions are much better looking.

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    W wersji CTP , która była dostępna podczas zeszłorocznych konferencji TechEd i PDC, a która wciąż jest

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    I am happy to see that WPF is being used for the UI.  I think that it will kickstart more people to start using these great frameworks since most people are used to staying back with what they know until large organizations like MSFT push it.  I do not like the triangles however.  I would like to see the +/- being used more.

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Lots of pretty-pretty, but it still looks like you require XAML editing in the UI designer. Or someone things it's so cool to see XAML that they suppose people will be impressed. I'm not impressed with that part. Visual forms designers should be usable without once touching the supporting code, or even seeing it, 95% of the time. Make it possible to hide the XAML so that a programmer almost never has to look at it.

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Great to see a darker palette.  It is easier on the eyes.  Multi-monitor support is awesome too! What will be the default font?  Too many developers just accept the Visual Studio defaults, so please provide something better than Courier New. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000969.html

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
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    February 24, 2009
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    February 24, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    This looks incredible. Can't wait.

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    I really love the possibility to work on more than one display, but I'm not really sure how many consultants will be able to use it. I'm a consultant, I change project every month, and I work at the customer, and my office is my laptop. I'll never be able to work on multi display. Did you find a way to enhance the experience of users working in my same scenario?

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Microsoft’s Jason Zander revealed in his blog a few new shots that portray the new look for Visual Studio

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    I can't handle all the toolbars and menus any more. please, please, please start using an office style ribbon UI!

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Hi, This looks great but I hope it will also deliver better performance than previous versions. I'd love to see a compile of my 200K project in a snap and not in 3 minutes, loading of 5000K unit tests in 1 second not 30s, opening of a solution with 50 projects in 5 seconds not 2 minutes and automatic checkout of a file from TFS done in the background not putting a wait dialog on the screen if my TFS is miles away. Also, changing betwen Debug/Release to happen in a fraction of time, compilation with Code Analysis turned on in 1 second not 50s per project and so on. Also, while building, running unit tests, deploying or doing any other background work the Text Editor + menus should work perfectly and not stumble while waiting for the C# compiler to finish or DB Project to deploy. ME, the person behind the screen&keyboard I'm the most important piece of the puzzle and VS should focus on ME and allowing me to do my tasks as efficiently as possible. Every "please wait" should dissapear. We love every new functionality but we spend more and more time looking at a blank screen, a waiting cursor or watching helplesly how the editor picks up out key-presses one every 3 seconds. Oh, multi-screen should include stuff like "snap to other top-level windows" so I can arrange my workspace nicely. Maybe even a Delphi-like UI workspace-less with every tool window a top-level window and no background behind might be nice if windows can easily snap together. Thanks, Corneliu.

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    More details about VS 2010 UI: http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/archive/2009/02/20/a-new-look-for-visual

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Today the new UI was presented at VS Live in San Francisco . I saw it through the Redmond News article . Screenshots Jason Zander has screenshots on his blog with the new look and feel in VS 2010 . The new UI was built using WPF. I think that Microsoft

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Woo! Rock Scroll lives!!!!!!   But why call it "Structure Margin"? snif

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    I really do not like the triangles.  The +/- minus as we have in VS already is easy to see and interpret - unlike the Vista style triangles.

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Have you considered providing a built-in color scheme that switches the code editor to have a dark background. Manually switching the colors may sometimes cause certain not-regularly-required things to get missed, which springs up surprises occasionally.

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    What's the point of asking questions if there are no answers? Not even a 'can't say now' reply...

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Looking good, looking good indeed :) I hope I haven't missed this question, but one of the things I'd really like to see (and others in my team too) is a better way to manage the tabs, when you have multiple files open for editing. It gets a bit clunky when you have more than 15 or so open. I often need to work with a LOT of tabs at once, especially during refactors and code reviews etc. Besides, it also makes me look busier ;)

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Looks good, but it would be nice to get some full size screen shots rather than thumbnails :-(

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Please implement the Ribbon and get rid of all the separate toolbars.  It would also be nice if the functionality of the Office Add-in (Search Command) was part of the new Ribbon.  This really makes finding things in the office ribbon easy, and it could do the same for the ribbon in VS. The more performance you can get the better, once the final features are implemented put 100% into optimizing the heck of out if.

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Just yesterday I was cursing about not VS not supporting multiple monitors. Today I rejoice. When will office become multimon friendly?

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Recently at VSLive! San Francisco 2009 new Visual Studio 2010 key features were presented by Jason Zander

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    I'm also not yet conviced about the triangles instead of +/-.  I hope that when playing with the beta it'll resolve my concern, but if it doesn't I hope it won't be too late in  the game to change it back to how it is now ...

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Visual Studio 2010 UI: WPF to the Max...

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Fantastic to see that ribbon HASN'T made it into the IDE.  It must be the biggest cause of lost productivity in the history of the PC?

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Incredible look-good IDE. Almost perfect.

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    A new look for Visual Studio 2010.

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Looks cool, can't wait to upgrade!

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Does this mean you have fixed the WPF blurry font rendering issue? otherwise we are all going to have major eye strain??

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    More bugs and very slow. After first SP it maybe get better.

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    i'm still missing an useful class browser like eclipse has one ..

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Will there be some smooth, good looking and non distracting animations/transitions in the UI to show off what developers can usefully do with WPF? I think this is important to win developers over to the plattform and to compete with say Apple in terms of user experience. Dev's seeing cool stuff in a flagship app as it is Visual Studio will likely add those things to their own apps which makes a better plattform experience for all Windows users...

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    For Visual Studio 2010 we have revamped the development environment to provide a cleaner, easier to use,

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Eat your own dog food at last... It's nice that some of the code editor improvements that have been in Java IDEs for years are finally coming to VS.

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    I like the look and feel, Especially if you get to play with more than one screen, i can edit my layout while i'm adding code to it at the same time .... owesome. With that layout, i can just imgine how even better it's gonna look on Windows 7.

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    Pretty please with sugar on top: Make highlighting of braces/curly braces work! E.g. If my cursor is on an opening brace, highlight the other one. Other editors can do this, so you should be able to do it too... Also, as promised: Don't forget your unmanaged code people (C/C++), as you did with VS2008. We need love too. ;) Looking at the UI this seems nice, but I hope there's not only form, but also function. I don't need all the the bling, I need to work efficiently.

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    Just make sure we can change the background color of the explorer and property windows.  I'm one of those "dark background" guys, and I want to be able to apply this to everything, not just the code window. As for the triangle glyphs... maybe I'd need to experience them first-hand, but I kind of like the current outlining style.

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    How about a new icon for the taskbar so 2003, 5,  8, 10 dont all look the same at a glance?

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    Can't wait to start playing around with it. Looks great!

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    I've been eagerly awaiting this IDE since reading http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/concept_ide.aspx. I'm a visual learner/instructor, and have implemented the diagramming model for Concept Fifteen: Visual Stack in my presentations. Is there any future for this concept?

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    I’ve just purchased Vs2008 and got used to it, now you changing again!

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    And I thought Office Ribbons were to be the norm ...

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    Well Piet, if you are going to be late to the party... don't be surprised that have all moved on to the next venue!

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    I really don't like those triangles - please reconsider the + and - which are far clearer and easier to understand.

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    I find that Visual Studio has been doing multi-monitor side-by-side code editing quite nicely since at least VS2003. Simply don't maximise the application, drag it to fill both monitors, and have two Vertical tab groups: one on the left monitor, one on the right... :)

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    Forgot to say that I also don't like the look of the triangles. Even bearing in mind what Jason has said about the hovering/greying - with the old approach you can see the region just by looking. With the new approach, you need to move the mouse to a very specific location to find out...

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    I code in VB and love the edit and continue feature in debug mode. On the first screen shot I see the familiar green triangle button for run with debugger attached, followed by selection pull downs for debug/release x32/x64/any. Could we instead have two buttons that each combine all three of the prior, i.e. [Set config to x32 + debug + compile + run with debugger attached] (so I can use edit and continue); and [Set config to x64 + release + compile + run without debugger attached] (so I can run as fast as possible and load big datasets). That would be fantastic (and easy to add), would even reduce the visual clutter, if as consequence we get rid of the config selectors.

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    Find below , a post from Jason Zander with some screen shots http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/archive/2009

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    Olá pessoal tudo bem com vocês, agora chega de carnaval e vamos voltar com tudo :). Para começar vejam

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    These pictures are too small. Could we get some larger ones?

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    Para todos aquellos que están esperando la salida del nuevo Visual Studio , o que quieren ir viendo que

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    February 25, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    The thing about the triangles isn't about what extra stuff happens, its about the visual element that we must see and click on. When I saw the first request for a Ribbon-like UI, I thought it was sarcasm. Please do not take away the menus and replace them with a Ribbon; add an optional Ribbon mode for those who like it. The thing to fix with the toolbars is to stop them from causing a resize when switching from one kind of document to annother.  I currently use a couple custom toolbars to "reserve" some space and prevent the resizing.

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    Regarding WPF blurry fonts problem - see here: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=380919 To summarize:

  • text issues should be fixed in WPF 4.0 (part of .NET 4.0)
  • VS2010 is built using .NET 4.0
  • VS2010 shouldn't have ugly blurry fonts Whether we'll see the fix in beta1 or not is another question...

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    unfortunately, the pictures are to small to look at the details...

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    I agree with Tore's comment re the usage of a triangle vs +/- to represent collapsed code regions.  +/- is  much more intuitive than some silly triangle. This wasn't broke - don't fix it! Put the +/- back!

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    A few people mentioned the Ribbon as a desired feature.  I would like to cast my weight against the Ribbon.  I hate it.  I have been using Office 2007 for about 2 years now and I still have trouble finding commands.  This is about commands I used to be able to find blind fold in previous Office versions. Love the multi-monitor support. Would love to have the default of Visual Studio build only the "Out Of Date" projects in the solution.  Supposedly, this is supported in VS2008.  However, as far as I can tell it's not the default and I can't for the life of me find how to set this option.   Compiling only "Out Of Date" projects should be the default and should be dead easy to configure.

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    The triangle glyphs must (MUST!) be changed back to the +/- glyphs.  The feedback on this is crystal clear.  We're not talking about code preview abilities, we're talking about the actual glyphs themselves. Just because Vista went down the wrong route of switching to triangles does NOT mean it's a good idea to jump off the same cliff. A) Psychologically the triangles are a smaller surface area to hit with the mouse.  This is a basic UI usability concept.  Even if you're not conscious of it, people tend to aim for the glyph itself, even if you are able to click anywhere in the glyph's bounding whitespace area.  It's simply more taxing to hit a triangle than a square of the same size. B) The triangles don't make as much sense as the simple to comprehend +/- glyphs. C) The triangles are like little arrows all over the place pointing at things, unnecessarily cluttering the view and distracting users. I really, really hope you take the feedback on these arrows seriously, as they're a real nuisance, and they're distracting from an otherwise great job of updating the Visual Studio IDE.

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    This looks excellent - looking forward to the new UI!

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    Should have added the ribbon UI of office. :)

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    one improvement i would like to see is the default color used to highlight a file in the solution explorer if you are working in that file. Currently the default color is almost non-existant. It makes it quite difficult to see which file you are working with. When files that have the same name (Default.aspx anyone?) from different projects are open, this can be frustrating. I know it seems small, but it happens quite frequently when I am doing bug fixes for projects i did not originally write.

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    Visual Studio developers got their first look at a new user interface that has been created for Visual

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    Just another person voicing their concern over the triangles vs +/- issue. The triangles used in windows explorer on vista are perhaps one of my least favorite things about the operating system. PLEASE DO NOT USE THESE TRIANGLES. As mentioned about 20 times before, they are hard to understand, and hard to click. That being said, bigger triangles is not a solution. Furthermore, by not showing the outlined regions, its unclear exactly what those triangles do. You mentioned that the outlined region will show when you mouse over the triangle, however, this is something that should be seen at a glance. And lets be honest... how many of us are using a mouse at all when we code? If you still plan to make this the new behavior, please offer an option to revert to the current +/- system we have today.

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    Good looking! Another reason to code with it now!

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    A first look at Visual Studio 2010

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    I'm here at VSLive! at the BEAUTIFUL Hyatt Regency at Embarcadero Center in San Francisco. I love this

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    Very nice GUI overall. I especially like the new colors, tabs and the facts that it's made with wpf. Good choice! However, I think the triangles don't work. I see no reason at all to replace the old +/- symbols. Agreed, there is certainly room for improvement in this area  but triangles aren't the solution. Mostly because a triangle could be anything. It's a symbol that, in this case, doesn't immediately tell the user what is does. It's not intuitive. But overall a very good job on the Ui :-) !

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    Visit Jason Zander's blog to see the latest Visual Studio 2010 screen shots. See http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/archive/2009/02/20/a-new-look-for-visual-studio-2010.aspx

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    I second that request for higher resolution.

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    RockScroll!  :)  Hope all it's features make it in.   The multi-mon improvements sound nice.  

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    Keep +- Highlight matching braces Refresh properties window faster in dual design of asp.net Better tab scrolling on hover or tile more rows Easier new control install than Ajax pieces of the puzzle Search all classes for missing references on error Better help and templates for web services as well as deploying for shared API

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    Yesterday saw the first screenshots emerge of the new WPF version of Visual Studio 2010. You can see

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    Are there changes to the programming model for extension developers (please!)

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    Will VS 2010 be also available for Windows XP?

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    Quest Software vient d'annoncer la fourniture d'un plugin pour VSTS 2010 pour permettre de supporter

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    Jason, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE do something about those office 2003 icons in the toolbar. I know you guys are loathe to overhaul all the icons, but at least update the icons in the toolbar

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    Very nice - but please no triangles!

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
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    February 25, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    Here is what I was talking about in #7 https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=113840

  • Anonymous
    February 26, 2009
    Great looking screen shot. Some comments:

  1. Triangles look like a bad idea. I will provide feedback on the beta when it comes out and I get a chance to try them.
  2. Let's fix the Add Reference dialog to update/search COM objects in the background, letting me choose my project reference in the mean time! I suspect most people rarely add COM references these days.
  3. Multi-target? Can you expand on that? Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0? Or just 3-3.5-4? What about targeting framework 4.0 in vs2008?

  • Anonymous
    February 26, 2009
    Looks great! I would like to see an option to filter toolbox items and a possibility to add subcategories.

  • Anonymous
    February 26, 2009
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    February 26, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 26, 2009
    Visual Studio 2010 UI Revealed

  • Anonymous
    February 26, 2009
    I really hope that VS 2010 will have support for viewing dependencies in the class diagram view as reported a thousand years ago here: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=115422

  • Anonymous
    February 26, 2009

If we're going to be stuck with sharp, hard to click triangles, can we have additional north-east facing ones at the ends of their ranges too?  This would reveal their nesting and extent, and would allow sections to be collapsed when only their bottoms are scrolled into view.  For even more points, clamp their vertical positions to the visible area so you can even collapse multi-page sections even when only their middles are showing. /

  • Anonymous
    February 26, 2009
    Let me echo Mladen Mihajlovic post; I agree with everything he said (spooky).

  • Anonymous
    February 26, 2009
    Wow, definitely looking forward to the floating windows/multiple monitors support. My work and home machines both have dual monitors yet VS2008 really only works well on one at a time.

  • Anonymous
    February 26, 2009
    If I'll be able to quickly edit ASPX files without the browser blocking me for 10s whenever it feels like it. If I'll be able to quickly switch to design view without waiting for many seconds -- and sometimes not even working. If I'll be able to have a faster experience from when I press F5 and actually can debug the site. If I'll be able to work for 30 minutes without having to restart the IDE. If I'll be able to work with VS without noticing it... then I'll be happy.

  • Anonymous
    February 26, 2009
    Looks great, can't wait to try it out!

  • Anonymous
    February 26, 2009
    VS2010 looks lovely!  I can't wait to get my hands on it :D

  • Anonymous
    February 26, 2009
    I can't wait. It looks awesome!

  • Anonymous
    February 26, 2009
    VS2010 looks great...Performance and Triangles issue they already mentions and i agree too. Besides that, just a little suggestion for VS2010; In VS2008 UI, by default Design pane will show on Top and XAML pane will show on bottom… Horizontal Split and Vertical Split function were just nice which allow us to make it left and right. However I think we should have 3 options button which are "Design", "XAML" and "Design & XAML" instead of "Collapse Pane" button If I just want to show the XAML pane, I need 2 steps. First, Swap pane first; second click on "Collapse Pane" button. Actually, it is quite troublesome for me because I need to swap pane and collapse always. In this case, if VS2010 can provide something like these options then we can just click a button to change the structure to display the pane. Thanks :)

  • Anonymous
    February 26, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 26, 2009
    this looks really good for vs developers

  • Anonymous
    February 26, 2009
    this looks really good for vs developers

  • Anonymous
    February 26, 2009
    Wilson: You can also double click on the XAML or Design tabs - which will maximise them.

  • Anonymous
    February 26, 2009
    Jasonz: I wasn't talking about the track changes colours, but the light gray background of the magin... until now it has been defaulted to white - which fits with the basic background of the document. With the new colour the margin sticks out quite a bit.

  • Anonymous
    February 26, 2009
    I mainly work on the UI part..Has there been any major changes in the names or wordings of user controls and their respective properties(for ex:datagrid and gridview had a lot of changes btw them..though they were minor..sometimes they r confusing)

  • Anonymous
    February 27, 2009
    everytime i start new VS project microsoft relases a new version of VS ;).. I am to slow for MS haha.. The New features look nice!

  • Anonymous
    February 27, 2009
    Will we be able to open multiple code tabs on different monitors in the new version. Kinda clucky having to open 2 instances of VS in the current version.

  • Anonymous
    February 27, 2009
    <lol>You're thing it's great? yeah? How much does it cost? People, you have to trying Linux and soft for Linux. Compiz Fusion give you better effects. and... you can have without money! Use free software, be free

  • Anonymous
    February 27, 2009
    If you want to get a glimpse of VS 2010 with WPF features take a look at Jason&#39;s blog: http://blogs

  • Anonymous
    February 27, 2009
    Well, I love the VS2010 editor. It is really cool, so make sure that you pay a visit here . But looking

  • Anonymous
    February 27, 2009
    Will Visual Studio continue to support extensibility through non-managed code for the foreseeable future? That is, will managed code become the only way to implement VSPackages?

  • Anonymous
    February 28, 2009
    Very disappointed there is no fluent UI (Office Ribbon). If any app would benefit from it, it's easily Visual Studio. A results driven UI would be great for an app that's loaded with so many features and functionality.

  • Anonymous
    February 28, 2009
    Visual Studio 2010 e 8 GB di ram

  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2009
    ¡Hola! Microsoft sigue apostando, según mi humilde opinión, por su producto estrella: el Visual Studio.

  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2009
    Okay, I'm impressed.  The UI really could have done with a refresh in 2008 and the multi-monitor support is something we've been gasping for for a while. I'm liking the palette and the overall L&F.  I'm excited to get my hands on some previews.

  • Anonymous
    March 02, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    March 02, 2009
    Time for you to get a raise.  Great work!

  • Anonymous
    March 02, 2009
    Wow those buttons on the Extension Manager are really, really big - afraid someone might miss them?

  • Anonymous
    March 02, 2009
    Ultimate look!!! I like the colouring feature of editor for the modified text.

  • Anonymous
    March 03, 2009
    i want to performance not look

  • Anonymous
    March 03, 2009
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    March 03, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    March 03, 2009
    Jason Zander posted a blog post about Visual Studio 2010 New Look which is built on WPF technology in...

  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2009
    I guess I'm very old fashioned but I just don't like it when the UI keeps changing so drastically between each version. I still prefer Visual Studio 2005. Nice discrete blue color on the menus and the other UI elements were very discrete and easy to look at. VS 2008 totally bloats the interface with too much color. This looks something in between. Is it only me that prefers a simple clean UI or does everyone prefer flashy colors, ribbons, fading and other "flashy" features? For me I spend a lot of time in front of VS. It's really annoying with lots of different colors and other features that don't really add any value...

  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2009
    We really need increased performance with large solutions (40+ projects) make Right-click -> go to definitions work when navigating between c# and vb code Improve performance when switching build configuration debug/release Everything said in above comments about references...plus: Restore the 'references' folder as a first class citizen in solution explorer rather than having to first click "view all" to reveal the folder. A better way to manage references for multi-project solutions.  It's cumbersome at best to go through each project and check references individually, especially when you need to see a property like its reference path. Definitely please reconsider the triangles.  I might be able to live with them but not the new collapsed code block look.  It makes it much harder to see and understand your code layout at a glance.  

  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2009
    Looks very nice and cool. My concern is also performance. Hopefully there is not any bug related WPF when develop programs.

  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2009
    even ive just upgraded to 2008......huh... now again will have to 2010

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2009
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    March 05, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2009
    Joe, I haven't made those tight comparisons you've made so I can't comment on that. But it's actually quite funny to hear. Me and lots of my friends used VS 6 for a long time after .NET came out. Don't get me wrong I'm all for improving UI and all that. I even love VS 2005. But I must agree that VS 6 was a really good product and in my opinion focused on a really lean and fast IDE. I get the impression that the newer VS versions gets a bit bloated since all the .NET languages and new technologies are included as well. I'm all for including all this functinality but I really do think that you guys (MS) should try not to change the look and feel between each version and primarily focus on making a really easy to use and fast IDE. Then focus on adding all of these piles of features. I guess all the .NET people maybe benefits more from this. But I'm a C++ programmer and there's not many new features or changes to the UI that really make any difference for me.

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2009
    Using wpf for the ide is a very BAD news! I hate font smoothing and cleartype. Why force us to read blurry smoothed fonts on the razor sharp LCS monitors !? Could be used this new ide with a normal (not smoothed at all) fonts? This is not improvement,  only eye-candy... What about the idiot tabbed document handling (opening tabs on the left), will this be fixed?

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2009
    Hi Jason, Please include the option to navigate between "full code view" or "procedure view", like vb6 does. This mode is very helpfull while you look for a code.

  • Anonymous
    March 07, 2009
    Apple lanza una beta de Safari 4 El nuevo look de Visual Studio 2010 : Preparaos a mejorar la CPU y RAM

  • Anonymous
    March 08, 2009
    Can't wait to play with the new CTP.

  • Anonymous
    March 09, 2009
    Please, please, don't bring in Office ribbons.  If there's ever been a production killer, it's the ribbon.

  • Anonymous
    March 10, 2009
    +1 for better Performance - in terms of running unit tests, opening large solutions and compilation of large solutions look to Eclipse JDT to the kind of scalability you should be aiming for with C# - maybe not in time for 2010 but at some point in the future

  • Anonymous
    March 10, 2009
    Hi, It is great to see new VS 1020 GUI, but there is a lot to be done for developers from developers perspective. For example: How can I have only procedure view like Visual Studio 6 (VB6). i.e Is it possible for deleveloper to concentrate only on function/procedure part he/she currently coding and hiding out rest of the code. I would like to have all time great feature of VB6 IDE(procedure view and full module view options in VS2010 editior.

  • Anonymous
    March 10, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    March 10, 2009
    Pl provide a toggle key to open / close any docking window like solution explorer / property window etc. If I press CTRL+R it shows "solution explorer" but there is no option to close it using keyboard. One has to use mouse click to close such windows and this is very irritating. If Ctrl+R is used to open window then pressing CTRL+R again should close it. That way toggling is very developers friendly! Isn't it? Hitesh

  • Anonymous
    March 12, 2009
    Primeros screenshots de la nueva interface en Visual Studio 2010

  • Anonymous
    March 13, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    March 13, 2009
    After the ALT.NET Conference , I spent the week attending the MVP Summit. It was great to meet in person

  • Anonymous
    March 17, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    March 17, 2009
    I like the WPF UI, very slick. I would PERFER a Ribbon over the menu bars, Office 2007 is GREAT! I want the following back!: Class Wizard Clipboard Ring Table view for XML "Full Mod" vs "Proc" view I need: a better XAML editor, I was just doing a huge Silverlight app and I forgot how big of pain in the rear VS and Blend 2 currently are. I don't want: Triangles

  • Anonymous
    March 17, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    March 18, 2009
    I too vote FOR Ribbon Bars.  Ribbons are much faster than menus and they help point out tools that you normally forget about. I would also like to have an option on the context menu to run external tools.  Would be very handy to right click a file in the solution explorer and run some external tool or launch it with the default assigned program. Also native multihead support would be great.

  • Anonymous
    March 19, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    March 20, 2009
    I would like to see gray GUIDLINES for entire code. i.e GUIDLINES for each block of codes.

  • If...ELSE...ENDIF,
  • LOOPS
  • FUNCTIONS and PROC
  • CLASS, etc, etc This would help developers to get a good visual feedback at a glance for each block of code and helps in understanding of code flow better. (make it OPTIONAL in configuration screen)

  • Anonymous
    March 20, 2009
    There is a great debate between MENUS vs. RIBBON. If I believe to be neutral, then I would vote for ribbon interface, this control makes every feature visible to the user and also help discoverability. Office 2007 is a great example of this. Yes I also understand that many people does not like ribbon concept but in reality; its usage brings more clarity. It makes many options visible which are hidden till date behind menus. So let us think beyond obvious!

  • Anonymous
    March 21, 2009
    This Week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan discuss: - Microsoft TechFest - TechFest Project: Dynamically combine

  • Anonymous
    March 21, 2009
    First, I have to give huge props to Microsoft for throwing an excellent party in Vegas this past week! The week was definitely packed with excitement and backed by great content. Be sure ...

  • Anonymous
    April 07, 2009
    In case you missed it, Jason Zander posted a while back about the Visual Studio 2010 new look . In that

  • Anonymous
    April 27, 2009
    Here are follow up resources for Paul Sheriff’s geekSpeak on WPF for the Business Developer . Be sure

  • Anonymous
    May 14, 2009
    In February I blogged about the new look for VS2010 .&#160; You gave us a huge amount of feedback which

  • Anonymous
    May 14, 2009
    Jason Zander, the Visual Studio general manager, just posted a follow up to his post regarding the new

  • Anonymous
    May 22, 2009
    Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is available to try. Don't forget to download the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET