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I’m looking for questions for a Visual Studio Factoid

Once again Rob Caron has sent me on a quest.  This time it is to put together a Visual Studio factoid – a list of historical facts about VS, like

  • Why is the executable devenv.exe instead of visualstudio.exe?
  • Is the Visual Studio logo an infinity symbol or Mobius Strip. (i recall a hallway debate over this once, many years ago)
  • Did the Solution Explorer originally appear on the right-hand side of the shell or the left, and why?

Throw out some of your questions, and i’ll see what i can find out.

Posted: Monday, May 05, 2008 3:20 PM by saraford

Comments

Peter Ritchie said:

A couple of things I'm curious about:

* Why did the editor window tab *and* border change to blue in Visual Studio 2008.

* What do the colours in the Visual Studio log signify?

# May 5, 2008 8:18 PM

Grant Holliday said:

Where did the name "Team Foundation Server" come from?

In VS2005 beta days, some of the directories were called "Enterprise Development Server" or something like that.

# May 5, 2008 11:24 PM

Rory Becker said:

Why is the Folder still called common7 in sutdio versions 8 and 9?

# May 6, 2008 3:51 AM

Alan Dean said:

Why did we lose the SDI option we had with VB6 and will we ever get it back?

# May 6, 2008 7:21 AM

Jignesh Patel said:

Does "About Visual Studio" dialog window contain any secret door to show the VS development team members' names similar to Internet Explorer(probably v5.0)? :-)

# May 6, 2008 9:16 AM

Primo said:

How much of Visual Studio is based on the old Visual InterDev environment?

# May 6, 2008 11:41 AM

Mahesh Kumar R (IN) said:

Sara,I'm curious to know how MSDN lib works and searches user entered queries across the flat files.?

# May 6, 2008 11:46 AM

Mike Chess said:

Why don't Solution Folders map to real folders like project folders?

P.S.  What can we do so that in the next release of Visual Studio they _will_ map to real folders?

# May 6, 2008 6:32 PM

shinu40 said:

What will be the last version of Visual Studio? What is next after Visual Studio 2008??Any new Technology??

# May 6, 2008 11:28 PM

Maryjane Eldred said:

How to I compile an older version of .cpp with the newer Visual Studio?

# May 8, 2008 12:39 AM

saraford said:

Another question that i have is the history behind the Immediate Window and the Command Window.  I think i know the answer, but like to have it confirmed.

# May 8, 2008 12:51 PM
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