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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:
In this image you can see several areas of concentration:
In the following image you can see floating documents which allows you to utilize multiple monitors while designing your project and writing code:
This image shows new support in the editor for outlining:
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:
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:
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!
Loving the look so far, can't wait for the next CTP/Beta/RC. :)
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.
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.
  You may have heard that VS 2010 will have an improved UI.  The last CTP showed some of the
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.
I absolutely love the multi-monitor features.
Looks superb, I am looking forward to the Beta.
It would be great if VS2010 could be installed on the non-system drive properly. At the moment VS 2005/2008 can be, but when you try to install BIDS it completely screws up. I don't know why this wasn't picked up when 2008 was released, but hopefully its on the list for 2010 :).
Especially as Scott Gu recommends installed VS on a seperate drive for performance.
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
Dang...I was hoping to see the ribbon in there somewhere.
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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??
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..
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..
Depuis la PDC (Professionnal Developer Conference) 08, Microsoft a annoncé que Visual Studio 2010 serait
First look at the Visual Studio 2010 UI