The Conference was opened by Paramesh Vaidyanathan, Product Unit Manager VS Platform & Ecosystem (He said, there is a separate session about how to pronounce his last name J)
His brief presentation summarized the role of Visual Studio and the role of VS Ecosystem starting from the VSIP program in 1999 to the current state of the ecosystem (through the VS Shell and VS Gallery). He presented some current numbers you can use to measure what you think about the size of VS Ecosystem: Microsoft has 74 premier partners, 124 alliance partners. The VS Gallery has 717 product entries.
Future of VS Architecture
After his brief introduction Rico Mariani (VS Chief Architect) made a great presentation about the future of VS. The key sentence of his presentation (from the point of architecture) was the following:
“Modernizing the VS Platform means: a multi-version plan to deliver the best development environment in the world for our customers and partners”
Visual Studio 10 will make Visual Studio the favorite application of developers: It will provide great first and great lasting impression and provide an “I Love the New UI” feeling.
It’ll be a breakthrough SMB Experience
It targets 2009 Platform Wave, including
.NET FX 4 and SL
Windows 7 Client and Server
Office 14 and SPS
Parallel Computing
Windows Mobile 7
Oslo
Live
The main part of Rico’s presentation was about the five keywords of the new architecture vision of VS (or the architecture vision of the new VS versions).
Rico summarized the new keywords for VS Architecture as follows:
Frugal and Scalable: “With low overhead for small projects and the horsepower to handle thousands of files, Visual Studio scales to meet my needs”
Extensible: “With Visual Studio I can always get the right tool for the job”
Modern: “Visual Studio takes advantage of modern HW and SQ”. Whether it’s multiple monitors, multiple processing cores, or the latest in Windows graphics rendering, VS uses it to improve my development experience”
Connected: “Visual Studio makes it easy to connect to information, people and services”
Here is a short list of features and characteristics about the next version of Visual Studio (called VS10 at the moment):
VS10 is smaller (code, data) than VS 2008
Eliminates quadratic algorithms in the C#, VB project systems
MSBuild improves VC++ performance and scalability
The new WPF-based editor improves scalability and provides fine-grained extensibility, due to the fact it is built on Microsoft Extensibility Framework
All new features that should support multiple languages do
Fix Setup, more modular, more reliable
Enable WPF based look and feel of the shell opportunistically
Help uses Live search and integrates community ratings, relevance
Developers with multiple machines can synchronize (Live, Mesh)
During Rico’s presentation we also could have a look at the planned architectural features of the next two versions of Visual Studio (VS11 and VS12) that all follow the direction determined by the five keywords: frugal, scalable, extensible, modern and connected.
Rico emphasized: all those things and features he is talking about mirror what he as a chief architect is thinking about…
I think what the real and delivered features are come to light when we have the product. But I really like the direction VS takes a new spin on!
Posted
Sep 15 2008, 08:16 PM
by
inovak