May 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1272 pages
61h 18m
English
The IDE has been completely revisited in Visual Studio 2010. Several areas now rely on Windows Presentation Foundation, bringing a lot of improvements to the developer experience. The most evident area affected by this change is the code editor, which is entirely built upon WPF. Visual Studio 2010 enables extending the code editor with specific WPF objects that can actually enrich the code editor with useful or just attractive extensions. Another key concept is how the IDE infrastructure is now built. The old extensibility architecture has now been replaced with the Managed Extensibility Framework (or just MEF), a set of .NET libraries that favors building extensible applications with composition ...
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