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The formerly angular and multi - colored “ infi nity sign ” logo became a round - cornered and
gradually - colored one, emphasizing the smooth integration among the tools within the IDE.
The new code editor of Visual Studio has been totally rewritten to use WPF as its display
technology, new functions such as the modeling tools, the new parallel task debugger, and many,
many more features also were implemented with WPF.
SUMMARY
The name of Visual Studio is about 13 years old, but the roots of the product go back almost
two decades. The fi rst milestone on the road was defi nitely Visual Basic 1.0. Up until 1997,
other programming languages and tools also picked up the visual composition aspect that had
distinguished Visual Basic from the formerly used development tools. Visual Studio was born by
packaging these tools (Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual FoxPro, Visual J++, Visual InterDev, and
MSDN) into a bundle.
With the introduction of the .NET Framework in 2002, Visual Studio started to gain big
momentum. The languages and tools encapsulated into the product changed, together with the
state - of - the - art paradigms and trends. The surrounding developer community has experienced a
spectacular growth in the last eight years.
After seven major versions (fi ve of which leveraged the .NET Framework), Visual Studio
transformed from a single development tool into a rock - solid software development environment.
It supports a wide audience, from students and hobbyists, to large - enterprise IT groups with full
application life - cycle management functionality needs.
As of this writing, you can use Visual Studio 2010 released together with .NET Framework 4.0. Its
functionality has been signifi cantly extended since Visual Studio 2008.
In Chapter 2, you ’ ll learn about the new enhancements of the IDE ’ s user interface.
FIGURE 1 - 4: The splash screen refl ects the brand new
design of Visual Studio 2010
Summary
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